This article examines the misconceptions about modern money theory (MMT) put forward by . The author divides her critique into three categories. First, the Drumetz/Pfister article erroneously indicates that MMT focuses exclusively on the means-of-payment function of money, that it considers...

Warum eigentlich 3 % und 60 %? Die Auseinandersetzung mit den Grenzwerten für Defizite und Schuldenstände in der Europäischen Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion zeigt, dass diese politisch willkürlich gesetzt und wenig ökonomisch fundiert sind. Auch ist der Schuldenstand als Grenzwert im...

This study presents empirical evidence about the determinants of long-term government bond yields for 19 economies of the European Monetary Union (EMU) over the period 1995-2018 within a multivariate panel framework. The fixed effects estimators reveal that the relationship between public debt...

Im Jahr 2020 publizierte das Bundesfinanzministerium den 5. Tragfähigkeitsbericht zur Staatsverschuldung in Deutschland für den Zeitraum bis 2060. Ausgangspunkt ist die zutreffende Erkenntnis, dass die von der Alterung der Gesellschaft abhängigen Kostensteigerungen auf lange Sicht über der...

This paper seeks to analyse the impact of government debt and other macroeconomic variables on the long term bond yield for South Africa. Recent increases in the government budget deficit and its corresponding borrowing has renewed interest in understanding fiscal dynamics within the economy....

With this paper, our objective is to empirically study public debt sustainability by estimating a fiscal reaction function where the primary balance relative to GDP is assumed to be a function of the public debt to GDP ratio of the previous year and of other macroeconomic variables. In...

In recent years, because of the 2008 financial crisis and the evolution of the sovereign debt markets, there has been a significant increase in interest in understanding the factors that determine the risk premium, becoming a key indicator of the financial stability of countries, and a measure...

The Community Empowerment Trust Fund is a revolving fund belonging to the community originating from the former Sub-District Development Program and the National Program for Independent Rural Community Empowerment in Indonesia which ended in 2014. Community institutions then manage the Community...

This study analyzes internal and external factors that affect banking efficiency by using quarterly data for 2013-2017. The sample includes conventional and Islamic commercial banks. Hypothesis testing uses the Tobit regression model. The results show that the loan to deposit ratio/ financing to...

The objective of this work is the construction of a probability credit scoring model in order to minimize the risk of default on payment of the customer portfolio, for which dependent (customer good and bad) and independent(characteristic of customer) variables were used to provide a correct...