Der Beginn eines nennenswerten Anstiegs der öffentlichen Verschuldung fällt in die Zeit der sozial-liberalen Koalition von 1969 bis 1982, die zugleich eine Politik der inneren Reformen propagierte. Mitte der 70er Jahre wird diese Politik durch einen anhaltenden Beschäftigungseinbruch...

Product and labor market reforms are needed to lift persistently sluggish growth in advanced economies. But reforms have progressed slowly because of concerns about their distributive and short-term economic effects. Our analysis, based on new empirical and numerical analysis and country...

We consider a dynamic general equilibrium model with collective wage bargaining and investigate how unemployment dynamics are affected by two types of budgetary policies. In line with traditional reasoning, a balanced-budget rule amplifies fluctuations in the short run, whereas an...

We consider a dynamic general equilibrium model with collective wage bargaining and investigate how unemployment dynamics are affected by two types of budgetary policies. In line with traditional reasoning, a balanced-budget rule amplifies fluctuations in the short run, whereas an...