At a time with growing fears of excessive government debt and of overburdened future generations Swiss fiscal policy seems to be the virtuous role model to be followed. Whereas almost everywhere else government debt has been increasing dramatically after the global economic and financial crisis...

Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich detailliert mit dem Flexibilisierungsinstrument Kurzarbeit. Dazu wird die institutionelle Entwicklung und der Stand der wissenschaftlichen Forschung ausführlich vorgestellt. Ökonomisch finden sich viele Argumente pro Kurzarbeit, wie bspw. die Senkung von...

The debt brake recently introduced into the German constitution forces the German federal states (Länder) to run structurally balanced budgets form 2020 onwards. The study is preoccupied with the potential effects of the debt brakes on the budget of the federal state of Hessen in the transition...

The study develops a budget consolidation strategy for Austria that does not endanger the fragile recovery while at the same time promoting distrbutional justice. As a first step a literature review on the macroeconomic effects of discreationary fiscal policy is given. As a second step two...