Since the fiscal expansion during the Great Recession 2008-2009 and the current European consolidation and austerity measures, the analysis of fiscal multiplier effects is back on the scientific agenda. The number of empirical studies is growing fast, tackling the issue with manifold model...

Since the fiscal expansion during the Great Recession 2008-2009 and the current European consolidation and austerity measures, the analysis of fiscal multiplier effects is back on the scientific agenda. The number of empirical studies is growing fast, tackling the issue with manifold model...

At a time with growing fears of excessive government debt and of overburdened future generations Swiss fiscal policy seems to be the virtuous role model to be followed. Whereas almost everywhere else government debt has been increasing dramatically after the global economic and financial crisis...

Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich detailliert mit dem Flexibilisierungsinstrument Kurzarbeit. Dazu wird die institutionelle Entwicklung und der Stand der wissenschaftlichen Forschung ausführlich vorgestellt. Ökonomisch finden sich viele Argumente pro Kurzarbeit, wie bspw. die Senkung von...

Derzeit ist Griechenland von öffentlichen Rettungspaketen der EU und des IWF abhängig, welche an harte Konsolidierungsauflagen gebunden sind, die von der Troika aus EU-Kommission, EZB und IWF überwacht werden. Bis jetzt sind Griechenland Kredite im Volumen von 65 Mrd. Euro zur Verfügung...

The debt brake recently introduced into the German constitution forces the German federal states (Länder) to run structurally balanced budgets form 2020 onwards. The study is preoccupied with the potential effects of the debt brakes on the budget of the federal state of Hessen in the transition...

Der Export der deutschen Schuldenbremse oder ähnlicher Fiskalregeln in die Krisen geschüttelten Euroraum-Staaten halten viele derzeit für einen entscheidenden Beitrag zur Lösung der Euro-Krise. Der vorliegende Beitrag zeigt dagegen, dass solche Hoffnungen angesichts der zahlreichen...

The study develops a budget consolidation strategy for Austria that does not endanger the fragile recovery while at the same time promoting distrbutional justice. As a first step a literature review on the macroeconomic effects of discreationary fiscal policy is given. As a second step two...

Short Time Compensation [STC] was a key program in Germany to fight the crisis. However, STC is quite an old tool: in the past 100 years it has been used quite often and is very multifunctional. It stabilized employment in every kind of macroeconomic shock. After a brief look into the...

The NAIRU is a key component of potential output and as such critically affects output gap estimates. In May 2014, the European Commission changed its specification of the NAIRU for several countries and lowered its NAIRU estimates – in the case of Spain from 26.6% to 20.7% for 2015. To test...