Zunehmende Budgetprobleme bedrohen die Handlungsfähigkeit öffentlicher Gebietskörperschaften. Bisherige Arbeiten zur Haushaltskonsolidierung beschränken sich auf deskriptive Argumente. Mit positiver Theorie und im Rahmen der Neuen Politischen Ökonomie analysiert diese Arbeit strukturelle...

The 'starving the beast' hypothesis claims that tax cuts lead to lower public spending, rather than higher debt levels and higher taxes in the future. This paper uses the institutional setting of German fiscal federalism to its advantage in order to explore how fiscal policy reacts to exogenous...

Recent research and events have brought fiscal policy back into the spotlight. Fiscal Taylor rules and error correction models have represented two different ways of quantifying the feedbacks from fiscal and economic conditions to fiscal policy decisions. This paper synthesizes these two ideas,...