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...

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...

A lack of transparency about policy performance can pose a major obstacle to welfare-enhancing policy competition across jurisdictions. In parallel surveys with German citizens and state parliamentarians, we document that both groups misperceive the performance of their state's education system....

A lack of transparency about policy performance can pose a major obstacle to welfare-enhancing policy competition across jurisdictions. In parallel surveys with German citizens and state parliamentarians, we document that both groups misperceive the performance of their state’s education...

A lack of transparency about policy performance can pose a major obstacle to welfare-enhancing policy competition across jurisdictions. In parallel surveys with German citizens and state parliamentarians, we document that both groups misperceive the performance of their state's education system....

A lack of transparency about policy performance can pose a major obstacle to welfareenhancing policy competition across jurisdictions. In parallel surveys with German citizens and state parliamentarians, we document that both groups misperceive the performance of their state's education system....

The process of globalization has an important impact on national tax policies. Most of the literature on taxation of capital in open economies does not focus directly on the political decision making process and assumes that the desired tax policy is responding to objective underlying tradeoffs....

The EU's revenue system is still typical for an organisation based on international cooperation and stands in contrast to the Union's far advanced legislative and political role. This contrast feeds the debate on granting the EU an autonomous tax source. Our contribution explores the factors...

In this contribution we study the determinants of how individuals assess the social fairness of a given income distribution. We propose an analytical framework distinguishing between potential impact factors related to the following fields: first fairness preferences, second beliefs on the...

This contribution empirically explores the drivers of labour market reform acceptance for the individual level in Germany. For that purpose we make use of the representative German General Social Survey (ALLBUS). This survey offers data to which extent individuals support benefit cuts, longer...