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This paper provides background information and basic descriptive statistics for a representative survey of the German population conducted on our behalf by GfK in the first quarter of 2013. The survey addresses important topics in fiscal policy, including: 1) public preferences on the...
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Das vorliegende fünfte Update der 2006 begonnenen "Generationenbilanzierung" der Stiftung Marktwirtschaft und des Forschungszentrums Generationenverträge der Universität Freiburg wirft einen ungeschminkten Blick auf die langfristige Nachhaltigkeit der öffentlichen Finanzen. Vor dem...
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Nach einem Drittel der Legislaturperiode hat die im Herbst 2009 angetretene schwarz-gelbe Koalition aus CDU, CSU und FDP mit dem Wachstumsbeschleunigungsgesetz, dem Zukunftspaket und der Gesundheitsreform bis Ende 2010 wesentliche Ziele des Koalitionsvertrages angepackt. Dennoch hat die...
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In response to the recent sovereign debt crisis, the member states of the European Union agreed to enact balanced budget rules in their national legislation. However, little is known about the public's opinion of balanced budget rules. To fill this gap, we conducted a survey among 2,000...
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The present paper analyzes expectations of German politicians about the German debt brake (Schuldenbremse), which became part of the German constitution in 2009. This fiscal rule requires the federal government and the German states to run a (cyclically adjusted) budget deficit of no more than...
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Examining the cases of Canada, Germany, and Spain, the role played by fiscal equalization schemes in determining …
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