(Länder) to a bail-out, the interest payments-to-revenue ratio. While risk premia measured in the German sub-national bond … receiving a bail-out payment. Quantitatively, the effects are, however, quite small. Our findings are robust to a variety of … markets’ bail-out expectations. In sum, our results indicate significant investor moral hazard in the sub-national German bond …

describe the system of fiscal federalism in Germany. The main part of the paper examines the bailout of two West German states … ruling of the Constitutional Court that forced the federal government to provide bailout transfers. In addition, we …

, ob das Wahlverhalten der Gemeinden bei Landtagswahlen in einem deutschen Bundesland die Verteilung von diskretionären …