The COVID pandemic caused the political competition between the prime ministers of the German states to reach its peak. Whoever is the best at announcing, launching, or implementing policies to combat the pandemic can hope to capitalize most politically. In this paper, we attempt to document...

Die Autorin untersucht, wie die finanzielle Lage der öffentlichen Haushalte sowohl von der demografischen und wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung als auch vom Länderfinanzausgleich besonders im Regionalen beeinflusst wird. Sie quantifiziert dabei die Effekte auf die Finanzen und Gesamtwirtschaft bei...

In this chapter I discuss the history and basic incentive effects of two key U.S. cash assistance programs aimed at families with children. Starting roughly in the 1980s, critics of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program argued that the program -- designed largely to cut...

In this paper, the relationship between the degree of centralisation and the distributive outcomes in European schemes of social assistance is investigated. For this purpose, a scheme of classification suitable for grouping the EU15 schemes except for Luxembourg according to features related to...