Thams, Andreas - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 2007
This paper analyzes German and Spanish fiscal policy using simple policy rules. We choose Germany and Spain, as both … 1990s. We focus on the question, how fiscal policy behaves under rising public debt ratios. It is found that both Germany …-switching techniques, we show that both countries underwent a change in policy behavior in the light of rising debt/output ratios at the …