Zahlreiche empirische Tests des Ricardianischen Äquivalenztheorems beruhen auf Kleinst-Quadrat-Schätzungen von Konsumfunktionen. Im vorliegenden Aufsatz wird gezeigt, daß einige dieser Schätzungen keine Grundlage für aussagekräftige Tests des Theorems bilden können. Zum einen sind die...

This paper analyzes the impact of pollution and abatement policy within a stochastic endogenous growth model. The agents have environmental preferences, but they neglect their individual contribution to aggregate abatement. Therefore, environmental care is done by the government and financed via...

Private school students do not always perform better in standardized tests. We suggest that this may be explained by choice of private schooling by less capable students in countries where government schools are better suited to talented students. To assess the empirical relevance of this...

The paper investigates the effect of asymmetric debt and debt servicing obligations on taxes and primary spending in a standard tax competition model, assuming public debts are pre-determined and in their steady state. The impact of increasing financial market integration and capital mobility on...

We study the consequences of non-neutrality of government debt for macroeconomic stabilization policy in an environment where prices are sticky. Assuming transaction services of government bonds, Ricardian equivalence fails because public debt has a negative impact on its marginal rate of return...

Der Beitrag erläutert den Begriff »Staatsbankrott«, der gegenwärtig in der öffentlichen Diskussion – vor allem aufgrund der Haushaltssituation Griechenlands – häufig verwendet wird.

Der Beitrag erläutert den Begriff »Staatsbankrott«, der gegenwärtig in der öffentlichen Diskussion – vor allem aufgrund der Haushaltssituation Griechenlands – häufig verwendet wird.

This paper presents a dense summary of the most fundamental results on the issue of PAYG Social Security. They are presented in a simple and insightful analytical framework by working from the budget constraint of the household. The results presented in detail are a representation of the...

This paper investigates in how far equity preferences may matter for climate negotiations. For this purposes we conducted a simple experiment with people who have been involved in international climate policy. The experiment, which was run via the Internet, consisted of two simple non-strategic...