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Subsidies granted by the German federal government decreased in the 1998–2004 period. Since 2005, subsidies have … increased. The transfers to the compulsory health insurance system were raised by very large amounts. Moreover, the subsidies … for re-integrating the unemployed were raised. The results are based on a comprehensive definition of subsidies; tax …
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Die Subventionen in Deutschland sind Gegenstand intensiver wirtschaftspolitischer Auseinandersetzungen. Zu den …Subsidization policy is intensively discussed in Germany. Subsidies comprise by definition tax expenditures and those …'s subsidies in the period 1998 to 2003 are analyzed. The results are compared to the data in the official report of the federal …
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Subsidies granted by German states (Länder) and municipalities are substantial and amounted to more than € 70.6 bill …. in 2001. Thus, states’ expenditures for subsidies exceeded half of total wage tax revenues (after deduction of child … allowances) in Germany or 3.4 per cent of German GDP. States’ subsidies are far from evenly distributed in regional and sectoral …
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Die Subventionen in Deutschland sind Gegenstand intensiver wirtschaftspolitischer Auseinandersetzungen. Der vorliegende …. Subsidies are defined as the sum of tax expenditures and those government expenditures which distort the structure of the … subsidies in the period 2000 to 2004 are presented. The results are compared to the data in the official "subsidy reports" of …
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€ 33.7 billion, measured according to a comprehensive definition of subsidies. In a narrower definition, figures accounted … non-insurance benefits, as far as these can be subsumed under the heading of subsidies. Moreover, the federal layer …
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If a wide definition of subsidies is used, the subsidies granted by the German Länder and their local authorities fell … less. Using a narrow definition, the subsidies granted by the Länder in 2007 amounted to 56.9 billion euros, which roughly … (GDP), the subsidies granted by the Länder have decreased steadily by more than a half percentage point since 2000. The …
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Subsidies granted by German states (Länder) and municipalities are substantial and amounted to more than € 70.6 bill …. in 2001. Thus, states' expenditures for subsidies exceeded half of total wage tax revenues (after deduction of child … allowances) in Germany or 3.4 per cent of German GDP. States’ subsidies are far from evenly distributed in regional and sectoral …
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Finanzpolitik. Skizziert wird eine Regierungs-Kampagne "Meine Subvention", die den Weg zu einem neutraleren Image eröffnet. III …The call for greater transparency and more performance orientation of subsidies is an evergreen of German economic … strength of the German regime. Most of the following modules to improve of the transparency and performance of subsidies are …
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Sub-national governments often finance substantial parts of their budgets via taxes on capital or other mobile factors - despite having access to alternative, less distortionary, revenue sources. This paper develops three hypotheses to explain this pattern and tests them in a natural experiment...
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Recent literature has emphasized that redistributive grant systems may tend to internalize fiscal externalities arising from tax competition. This paper further explores the conditions under which local grant systems enforced by the state government will enhance efficiency. A system of...
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