Fiscal Policy

Chrysi Cherouveim

A Proposal for an Effective Design for the Domestic Fiscal Frameworks of the EMU Member States Under the Fiscal Compact

EURO-Wirtschaft – Studien zur ökonomischen Entwicklung Europas

This book deals with current issues on fiscal policy frameworks at the national level and provides new insights to them. The main purposes is to examine the role of domestic numerical fiscal rules with special reference to the role of the design characteristics of the rules, the social and economic factors and to associate their role with the […]

Alex Ludwig

Covid-19 als „Black Swan“ Ereignis

Untersuchung zur Bestätigung oder Widerlegung der „Modern Monetary Theory“ Annahmen in Krisenzeiten

Wirtschaftspolitik in Forschung und Praxis

Die Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) hat seit der Finanzkrise 2008 zunehmend an Bedeutung gewonnen. Doch wie bewähren sich ihre Grundannahmen in einer globalen Krise wie der COVID-19-Pandemie, einem unerwarteten „Black Swan“-Ereignis?

In seinem Debütwerk präsentiert Alex Ludwig eine umfassende Analyse der MMT und hinterfragt kritisch ihre […]

Daniel Besendorfer

Sustainable Federalism

Theory and Applications

Schriftenreihe volkswirtschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

When it comes to sustainability, most people, particularly in Europe, think of an environmental concept to conserve access to natural resources for our offspring. Rooted in forestry, any concept would be called sustainable that ensures long-term use of a certain resource without exploiting its stock. The United Nations’ environmental summit of […]

Xu Wang

Modeling China‘s Economic Growth Path

A Dynamic Analysis of Pension and Tax Reforms

Studienreihe Volkswirtschaften der Welt

The fast economic growth of China in the last three decades has impressed economists around the globe. How did China succeed to keep a high growth rate in such a long period? Which costs and risks could the rapid development of China imply? How could the historical success be maintained in the foreseeable future? A large number of economists […]

Michael Carlberg & Arne Hansen

Economic Analysis of a Great Recession

Schriftenreihe volkswirtschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Asset price bubbles refer to both real estate bubbles and stock market bubbles. The collapse of an asset price bubble means that asset prices go down while liabilities do not. As a result, millions of people have impaired balance sheets. Put another way, millions of people are in debt. In order to reduce their debt, they have to reduce their […]