analysis of the "structural" consolidation of public finances in Germany for the period from 1991 until 2017 showing that the … German debt brake is not the cause of the successful budget consolidation in Germany since 2010. The improvement of the … fast consolidation after the Great Recession coincided with the transition period for the full introduction of the federal …

Currently fiscal policies in Germany seem to be in a very comfortable position and the German Debt Brake is regarded as …

theoretical or purely ideological foundations. Germany as the most economically and politically influential member state of the …

and/or investment and savings behavior in Germany. …

experts (e. g. fiscal policymakers, economists) think of deficit spending, budget consolidation or fiscal rules. In contrast …

We assess the specific need (or its absence) of a country to implement a fiscal consolidation programme by focusing … of a fiscal consolidation program implies an improvement in the degree of public finances´ sustainability, for in …

This paper reviews the empirical literature to determine which forms of fiscal consolidation successfully reduce debt …-lasting recessions. In addition, we find that periods of fiscal consolidation that last more than two years tend to be twice as … successful as those that last only two years or less. We do not find the size of the fiscal consolidation to be a keydetermining …