Die vorliegende Studie der Stiftung Marktwirtschaft wirft einen ungeschminkten Blick auf die Nachhaltigkeit der öffentlichen Finanzen in den zwölf Gründungsstaaten der Eurozone (EURO12-Staaten). Sie ermittelt die tatsächliche Staatsverschuldung der Länder. Das daraus resultierende Ranking,...

In recent decades, governments have built up substantial public debt, which is often accompanied by a growing public sector and fiscal policies that neglect long-term considerations. The contributors to this CESifo volume consider whether the development of public debt in the United States and...

In this paper, we investigate the trade-off between the need for budget consolidation and the desirability of expansionary fiscal policies as a means of demand management by simulating alternative scenarios with a macroeconometric model of the Slovenian economy. The simulations show that for the...

In this paper, we simulate a macroeconometric model of Slovenia over the period 2012–2060, using the projected demographic development as input, and determine time paths for budgetary and macroeconomic variables under alternative assumptions about Slovenian policy instruments so as to limit...