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Stellungsnahme zur Anhörung der Bundesstaatskommission

Homburg, Stefan - 2005

The paper is an expert opinion, prepared for a hearing of Germany’s Federal Commission I (Bundesstaatskommission I …), which proposed constitutional changes regarding fiscal federalism and taxes. …

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Does Expenditure Composition Influence the Debt Level? Evidence from German Federal States

Stegarescu, Dan - 2016

Despite strongly equalized per capita revenue and similar budgetary institutions, fiscal performance is increasingly diverging across German federal states. Given that state and local governments are endowed with expenditure autonomy, this paper investigates whether the composition of...

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Do Municipal Mergers Reduce Costs? Evidence from a German Federal State

Blesse, Sebastian - 2016

We study the fiscal consequences of municipal mergers by making use of a largescale merger reform in the German federal state of Brandenburg. This reform, which was implemented from 2001 to 2003, led to a substantial reduction in the number of municipalities. Individual mergers were...

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Modeling Fiscal Sustainability in Dynamic Macro-Panels with Heterogeneous Effects : Evidence from German Federal States

Feld, Lars P. - 2018

In this paper, we extend Henning Bohn's (2008) fiscal sustainability test by allowing for slope heterogeneity and cross-sectional dependence (CD). In particular, our econometric approach is the first that allows fiscal reaction functions (FRF) to capture unobserved heterogeneous effects from...

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Do Municipal Mergers Reduce Costs? Evidence from a German Federal State

Blesse, Sebastian - 2014

The extant empirical evidence on the fiscal consequences of municipal mergers is ambiguous. We therefore revisit this question by making use of a merger reform in the German federal state of Brandenburg in 2003. In addition to identifying the causal effects of mergers on municipal expenditures...

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Do Party Ties Increase Transfer Receipts in Cooperative Federalism? - Evidence from Germany

Bury, Yannick; Feld, Lars P.; Koehler, Ekkehard A. - 2021

Cooperative fiscal federalism needs a multi-level consent to decide on the allocation of intergovernmental transfers … transfers to municipal governments under this type of federalism. Using a regression discontinuity design in close electoral … supporting the swing voter hypothesis, our results suggest that federalism inherently entails restrictions for misusing …

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Reformoptionen des Länderfinanzausgleichs unter politökonomischer Betrachtung

Broer, Michael - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 94 (2014) 4, pp. 258-266

Bayern und Hessen haben im März 2013 eine Klage vor dem Bundesverfassungsgericht gegen das Gesetz über den Länderfinanzausgleich eingereicht. Reformvorhaben müssen aber auch politische Mehrheiten im Bundestag und Bundesrat erreichen. Allein aus politökonomischer Perspektive erscheint eine...

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Depressing dependence? : transfers and economic growth in the German States, 1975-2005

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Feld, Lars P.; Necker, Sarah - 2016

Most countries pay substantial intergovernmental transfers to poor regions. Since these transfers are often paid with the aim of achieving regional convergence, they should have a positive effect on economic growth. However, it is equally possible that transfers perpetuate under-development by...

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Depressing dependence? : transfers and economic growth in the German States, 1975-2005

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Feld, Lars P.; Necker, Sarah - 2017

Most countries pay substantial intergovernmental transfers to poor regions with the aim of achieving regional convergence. Consequently, transfers should have a positive effect on economic growth. However, it is equally possible that transfers perpetuate under-development. This paper studies...

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Die Notwendigkeit der Einwohnerwertung

Zimmermann, Horst - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 93 (2013) 8, pp. 534-538

. The paper argues that the city-states should be treated like any large city in Germany, which would result in their being …

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