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States merge small and medium sized municipalities to achieve economies of scale. Little is known to which extent mergers of large local governments reduce expenditures. I use the synthetic control method to identify the effect of mergers of county-sized administrations in Germany (districts) on...
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States merge local governments to achieve economies of scale. Little is known to which extent mergers of county-sized local governments reduce expenditures, and influence political outcomes. I use the synthetic control method to identify the effect of mergers of large local governments in...
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In many federal countries, local governments run large deficits, even when fiscal supervision by state authorities is tight. I investigate to which extent party alignment of governments and fiscal supervisors influences budget deficits. The dataset includes 427 German local governments for the...
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Models of effective fiscal supervision usually assume neutral and benevolent overseers. In reality, fiscal supervisors often lack such independence. If overseers and supervised officials are partisan, party favouritism and politics may replace other objectives. The two case studies discussed in...
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I present the first database of historical local population figures for all Germany. The German Local Population Database (GPOP) includes total population in 1871, 1910, 1939, 1946, 1961, 1987, 1996, 2011, and 2019 for the universe of all German municipalities, counties, and states at consistent...
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I present the first database of historical local population figures for all Germany. The German Local Population Database (GPOP) includes total population in 1871, 1910, 1939, 1946, 1961, 1987, 1996, 2011, and 2019 for the universe of all German municipalities, counties, and states at consistent...
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Zum dritten Mal haben das ZEW Mannheim und die Universität Mannheim alle 16 deutschen Landesparlamente zur Schuldenbremse befragt. Dieses langfristige Umfrage-Projekt wird durch den von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft geförderten Sonderforschungsbereich 884 "Die politische Ökonomie von...
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Für den Bund begrenzt die im Grundgesetz verankerte Schuldenbremse seit dem Haushaltsjahr 2016 die strukturelle, also konjunkturbereinigte, Neuverschuldung. Im Jahr 2020 ist die Schuldenbremse auch für die 16 Bundesländer in Kraft getreten. Diese Expertise befasst sich mit den Einstellungen...
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