Aiginger, Karl; Pitlik, Hans; Schratzenstaller, Margit - In: Austrian Economic Quarterly 15 (2010) 2, pp. 184-197
The Austrian Federal Government has set itself the goal to reduce the Maastricht deficit to 2.7 percent of the GDP by 2013. In the medium term, a consolidation of the public budgets will be necessary to regain room for manoeuvre for budget policy and to avoid undesirable distributive effects of...