Die Länder Bremen, Hamburg, Niedersachsen und Schleswig-Holstein haben den Reformationstag ab 2018 als gesetzlichen Feiertag festgelegt; Berlin plant, ebenfalls einen zusätzlichen Feiertag einzuführen. Die Bürger nehmen die Maßnahme positiv auf, die Kosten des Feiertags sind für sie aber...

Sustainable and inclusive growth in emerging Asian economies requires continued high levels of public sector investment in areas such as infrastructure, education, health, and social services. These responsibilities, especially with regard to infrastructure investment, need to be devolved...

This article provides a theoretical view on European Public Sector Accounting Standards (EPSAS), focusing on overarching accounting principles and models, as well as their consequences on the working and the very existence of public service activity. Our analysis applies to illustrative cases...

To what extent do bond market reactions to an unexpected deficit shock depend on state-specific politics? To answer this question, we calculate German state bond spreads over government benchmark paper using information from Datastream for the period 2006-2010. We test for a variety of...