Führende Praktiker und Wissenschaftler nehmen in diesem Tagungsband aus Anlass des 65. Geburtstages von Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schreiber Stellung zu ausgewählten Fragen der Besteuerung von Unternehmen. Dieses Buch bietet spannende Diskussionen, interessante Argumente und neuartige Einblicke in die...

Many economic studies analyse the impact of fiscal rules and discuss their effectiveness in limiting excessive debt. A majority of these studies, however, neglects or only deals insufficiently with the potential issue of endogeneity. In this paper, we propose a novel identification approach...

There is a growing empirical literature studying whether fiscal rules reduce borrowing costs. Nevertheless, it remains an open question whether these rules are effective genuinely or just because they mirror fiscal preferences of politicians and voters. In our analysis of European bond spreads,...

The present paper analyzes expectations of German politicians about the German debt brake (Schuldenbremse), which became part of the German constitution in 2009. This fiscal rule requires the federal government and the German states to run a (cyclically adjusted) budget deficit of no more than...