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Housing market convergence : evidence from Germany

Unal, Umut; Hayo, Bernd; Erol, Isil - 2022

This paper provides an analysis of the convergence pattern of German housing prices and rents employing a new dataset … that covers all the country's administrative districts. In addition to conventional tests for 𝛽-convergence and 𝜎-convergence … districts. Our results reveal no evidence of convergence across Germany or within states; rather, we discover widespread …

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Leaders' impact on public spending priorities: The case of the German Laender

Hayo, Bernd; Neumeier, Florian - 2012

We examine determinants of the composition of public expenditure in the German Laender (states) over the period 1993-2008, as the Laender exhibit a high degree of institutional and political homogeneity and are endowed with extensive fiscal competences. Our prime contribution is an investigation...

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The effects of legislated tax changes in Germany

Hayo, Bernd; Uhl, Matthias - 2011

This paper studies the short-run macroeconomic effects of legislated tax changes in Germany using a vector autoregression (VAR) approach. Identification of the tax shock follows the narrative approach recently proposed by Romer and Romer (2010). Results indicate a moderate, but statistically...

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Political leaders' socioeconomic background and fiscal performance in Germany

Hayo, Bernd; Neumeier, Florian - 2011

This paper investigates whether the socioeconomic status of the head of government helps explain fiscal performance. Applying sociological research that attributes differences in people's ways of thinking and acting to their relative standing within society, we test whether the social status of...

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Public preferences for government spending priorities : survey evidence from Germany

Hayo, Bernd; Neumeier, Florian - 2014 - This version: 4 November 2014

Employing data from a representative survey conducted in Germany, this paper examines public preferences for the size and composition of government expenditure. We focus on public attitudes toward taxes, public debt incurrence, and public spending in six different policy areas. Our findings...

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Leaders' impact on public spending priorities : the case of the German Laender

Hayo, Bernd; Neumeier, Florian - 2012 - This version: 8 February 2012

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488856

The effects of legislated tax changes in Germany

Hayo, Bernd; Uhl, Matthias - 2011

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009313156

Political leaders' socioeconomic background and fiscal performance in Germany

Hayo, Bernd; Neumeier, Florian - 2011 - This version: 7 October 2011

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009313157

Topics in fiscal policy : evidence from a representative survey of the German population

Hayo, Bernd; Neumeier, Florian; Uhl, Matthias - 2014 - This version: 13 February 2014

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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Taxation and labour supply : evidence from a representative population survey

Hayo, Bernd; Uhl, Matthias - 2014

We study the influence of taxation on labour supply using a specifically designed representative survey of the German population. First, we investigate whether taxes generally matter for the labour supply decisions of our respondents. Around 41 per cent report taking taxes into consideration,...

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