Behringer, Jan; Dräger, Lena; Dullien, Sebastian; … - 2024
attitudes towards public debt and fiscal rules. On average, people strongly underestimate the debt-to-GDP ratio, overestimate … consider public debt to be a more (less) severe problem once they learn the actual debt-to-GDP or interest-to-tax-revenue ratio … with historical public debt figures. We find no treatment effects on attitudes towards the debt brake. …