This thesis was written by Jakob Eberl while having been a research assistant at the Center for Economic Studies (CES) at the University of Munich. It was completed in December 2015 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in May 2016. The...

Die vorliegende Arbeit wurde von Jakob Eberl während seiner Tätigkeit als Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Center for Economic Studies (CES) an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München erstellt. Sie wurde im Dezember 2015 abgeschlossen und von der Volkswirtschaftlichen Fakultät der...

The dissertation elaborates on topics that are related to (i) intergenerational transfers of wealth and to (ii) how government ideology and elections influence outcomes (income inequality and budget consolidation) and political processes (fiscal planning and policy advice). The dissertation...

Commodity producers in general typically have a commodity driven cost baseas well as commodity price driven revenue stream. The research reportinvestigates the correlation between input commodity price and gold price forgold mining companies, and how commodity price behaviour could...

This volume includes five self-contained chapters in the fields of public debt and fiscal transfer schemes. After an introduction to the topic, chapter 2 shows that the institutional setting of fiscal policy making needs to be considered when assessing the sustainability of fiscal policy. Using...

This dissertation studies the effects of fiscal policy and the challenges due to government debt. The first part of the work consists of an analysis of fiscal policy and government debt in theoretical models. We show in Chapter 2, how the public debt structure, split into internal and external...

Over the past few decades, many countries have experienced a marked decline in the volatility of output. However, there is still a significant difference between developed and developing countries in the level of output volatility. A proposed explanation for this phenomenon is the impact of...

Economic growth of a country is depended on implementation of fiscal and monetary policies. Proportion of effectiveness of the fiscal and monetary policies to economy is still debatable among Keynesian and Monetary specialist. This research is proofing empirical effectiveness of fiscal and...