In economics the relationship between economic growth, debt, taxation and spending is an important one. In this paper we will use an optimal control model to analyze such relationship further. We find that lowering the tax rate is the only strategy that will increase growth and on the same time...

Most public finance books are texts, which are aimed at undergraduate or graduate students. They are overly technical in nature and appeal only to a narrow range of bureaucrats and academics. Books on taxation are written for tax practitioners and usually emphasize either what the law is or how...

"[T]he money of a State is not what is of compulsory general acceptance, but what is accepted at the public pay offices..." (Georg Friedrich Knapp 1924) "In an economy where government debt is a major asset on the books of the deposit-issuing banks, the fact that taxes need to be paid gives...

In this paper we review the linkages between the quality of public finances, that is, the level and composition of public expenditure and its financing via revenue and deficits, and economic growth. We review the various channels through which public finances affect growth and its underlying...

Durch die öffentliche Finanzierung erhalten die Politiker auf den verschiedenen Staatsebenen die für ihr Handeln erforderlichen Ressourcen. Die Wissenschaft trägt Mitverantwortung für die richtige Dosierung und sachgerechte Gestaltung dieser Ressourcen zum Wohlergehen eines Gemeinwesens und...