Die jüngste Zuspitzung der griechischen Schuldenkrise hat die Diskussion über einen möglichen Schuldenschnitt erneut angefacht. Dabei werden häufig Regelungen gefordert, die im Gegensatz zum aktuellen Rettungsschirm und den bestehenden Beschlüssen für dessen Anschlussreglungen einen...

Based on cross-country data for up to 78 countries, this paper shows that fiscal decentralization-the assignment of expenditure and revenue mobilization functions to subnational levels of government-is associated with various indicators of governance, such as corruption, rule of law, and...

Market reaction to a change in official interest rates will depend on the extent to which the change is anticipated, and on how it is interpreted as a signal of future policy. In this paper, a technique is developed to separate the anticipated and unanticipated components of such changes and is...