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Demystifying a shining example: German public finances under the debt brake

Eicker-Wolf, Kai; Truger, Achim - 2014

German fiscal policy is nowadays often presented as a shining example due to successful budget consolidation after the Great Recession. However, the idea that the German success is the result of a well-thought-out economic strategy that could therefore serve as a role model for other countries...

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The political economy of 'linked' progressive taxation in Africa and Latin America

Mosley, Paul; Abdulai, Abdul-Gafaru - 2016

switched between sectors. We examine, principally by regression methods, the impact of 'linked taxation' in five countries … revenue in all those countries. 'Linked progressive taxation' has evolved over recent years to become more flexible, in … particular through reforms in the sources and types of taxation which are used to finance priority expenditures, and we argue …

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Fiscal Policy, Growth and Convergence in Europe

Gemmell, Norman; Kneller, Richard - 2003

Recent evidence on the impact of fiscal policy – taxes, public expenditures and budget deficits – on long-run growth in OECD countries has adopted the Barro (1990) framework to distinguish between ‘productive' and ‘unproductive' expenditures, and ‘distortionary' and...

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Fiscal policy in a growth framework

Gemmell, Norman - 2001

This paper assesses recent theorising and empirical evidence on the impact of fiscal policy—taxes, public expenditures and budget deficits—on long-run growth. It considers the relevance of recent advances in growth theory for low-income countries and compares the evidence for low-income...

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Tax Cuts Starve the Beast! Evidence from Germany

Fuest, Clemens; Neumeier, Florian; Stöhlker, Daniel - 2019

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...

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On the collective choice among models of social protection: An experimental study

Farina, Francesco; Ottone, Stefania; Ponzano, Ferruccio - In: Games 10 (2019) 4, pp. 1-17

A real-effort experiment is conducted in order to detect preferences for one out of three different models of the Welfare State characterized by different tax-and-transfer schemes. We reproduce a small society in the lab where: Subjects are grouped in three stylized classes (the rich, the middle...

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