Montchrétien was definitely mercantilist. He praises the ancients, their honors and their self-discipline, but notes, like Serra, that there was no concept of Political Economy in Antiquity. The words, however, appear for the first time in the pseudoaristotelian Oeconomica II, where the...

Destructive effects of corruption, that is defined as private use of public authority, on economy are mainly recognized through economic growth, income distribution and economic stability. In public sector, its effects are also identified as reduction in revenues and destruction in spending...

In this paper, we present a disaggregated framework for the analysis of past and projected structural developments in the most relevant revenue and expenditure categories and the fiscal balance. The framework, in particular, distinguishes between the effects of discretionary fiscal policy and of...

Angesichts der zum Teil existenzbedrohenden Konsequenzen, die sich aus den epidemiologisch ebenfalls notwendigen Maßnahmen des Teil-Shutdowns ergeben, stand und steht die Bundesregierung unter Handlungsdruck. Unbestritten ist die Notwendigkeit zu einfachen und schnell wirksamen Hilfen, denn sie...

Die Wirtschaftspolitik steht angesichts der Schwere der Energiepreiskrise vor großen Herausforderungen. Mit den drei Entlastungspaketen hat die Regierung zwar einige wichtige Impulse gesetzt, eine stringente Linie lässt die Wirtschaftspolitik jedoch vermissen. Sämtliche Maßnahmen sollten...

The sharp rise in energy prices represents a considerable structural risk to the German economy. Deindustrialisation has become a veritable threat. The government’s economic policy needs to establish positive expectations for energy costs in the medium term through interventions in the gas and...

In this paper, we present a disaggregated framework for the analysis of past and projected structural developments in the most relevant revenue and expenditure categories and the fiscal balance. The framework, in particular, distinguishes between the effects of discretionary fiscal policy and of...

This paper studies the transmission of a foreign fiscal policy shock (assumed to be generated in Germany) to key macroeconomic variables in five Central and Eastern European economies (CEE-5). We use quarterly data from 1995 to 2009 and estimate an open economy structural vector autoregressive...

We provide novel and comprehensive evidence on the net fiscal contributions of natives and migrants to the governmental budgets of EU countries. We account for income taxes and cash benefits, along with indirect taxes and in-kind benefits, which are often missing in standard datasets. We find...