The paper presents an investigation of subnational government bailouts in Germany. In a first part we briefly describe the fiscal federalism system in Germany. The main part of the paper examines the bailout of two West German states. We identify the causes of the financial trouble of both...

The paper investigates the impact the provision of public capital has on the demand for private capital and labour using a cost function with public capital included as a fixed unpaid factor of production. Special attention is paid to the examination of the influence tax vs. debt financing of...

This paper examines the effects of demographic change on public finances in a federal system. We develop a simple methodical procedure to measure the effect of demographic changes on public revenues and expenditures. We apply our method to the local, state and federal government sector as well...

The paper examines the question how fiscally strong and fiscally weak states respond to taxing autonomy at the state level, a subject that is currently under debate in Germany where states do have virtually no power to tax. We use a simple theoretical model that incorporates state surtaxes on...

Der Beitrag untersucht mit Hilfe eines partiellen Anpassungsmodells die Auswirkungen der demographischen Entwicklungen in Deutschland auf die Budgets der Kommunen, wobei der Anpassungsdynamik der öffentlichen Haushalte eine besondere Berücksichtigung zukommt. Dazu werden für verschiedene...

Das Ziel des vorliegenden Beitrages besteht darin aufzuzeigen, wie die demographischen Veränderungen die öffentlichen Haushalte tangieren werden und Überlegungen dahingehend vorzutragen, welche Anpassungszwänge auf die öffentlichen Verwaltungen zukommen. Hierbei werden wir die "klassischen"...

The paper examines the effects of demographic change on federal, state and local government expenditures in Germany. Public spending is decomposed into almost 30 categories (functions) and simple estimates of age cost profiles are derived. Using population forecasts and assuming timeinvariant...

The paper examines the effects of demographic change on federal, state and local governments in Germany with a focus on the expenditure side to answer the question, whether demographic change will induce vertical fiscal expenditure imbalances. We present estimates of the impact of demographic...

Der Beitrag untersucht die Auswirkungen des demographischen Wandels in Deutschland auf die öffentlichen Finanzen anhand des Konzeptes der Altersstrukturprofile. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf der Länder- und Gemeindeebene. Neben einer starken Demographiesensitivität der Ausgaben und Einnahmen...