The thirteenth century was an era of bold constitutional experiments in Europe. During this age, for the first time in history, fiscal constitutions, i.e., limits on the fiscal prerogatives of the state, emerged. In Portugal, this manifested itself as a monetary constitution that prevented the...

"This book examines the evolution of fiscal capacity in the context of colonial state formation and the changing world order between 1850 and 1960. Until the early nineteenth century, European colonial control over Asia and Africa was largely confined to coastal and island settlements, which...

This paper explores the effect of party system institutionalization on the reliance of tax systems on the personal income tax. As a first step, the paper re-examines the relationship between party system institutionalization and taxation patterns employing the recently launched Government...

We apply the difference-in-discontinuities design to disentangle the fiscal effects of the governance system conditional on electoral systems. We take advantage of a natural experiment, which involves two institutional reforms at the local level in Poland. The first reform introduced two...

Die Stadtstaatenregelung im Länderfinanzausgleich sieht vor, dass durch die Einwohnerveredelung finanzielle Mittel zu den Stadtstaaten umgeleitet werden. Nicht diese besondere Berücksichtigung, sondern das gegenwärtige Verfahren ist dabei umstritten. Der Wissenschaftliche Beirat beim...

This paper explores the effect of party system institutionalization on the relevance of the personal income tax in the tax composition. Based on a fiscal contractualism approach, it is argued that institutionalized political party systems increase the capacity of political actors to credibly...

In den letzten Jahren schien der Finanzausgleich unter den Ländern das wichtigste finanzpolitische Thema in der Bundesrepublik zu sein. Zu politischen Schlagzeilen gelangte der darüber geführte Streit durch die Klage Bayerns und Hessens vor dem Bundesverfassungsgericht ab März 2013. Dadurch...

Over the past five years, the euro area's fiscal rules have been reformed and extended. It is not clear, however, whether these changes have been effective at boosting fiscal prudence, and whether they go far enough. This policy paper summarises recent research findings from a...

Central bankers have emerged from the financial crisis as the third great pillar of unelected power alongside the judiciary and the military. They pull the regulatory and financial levers of our economic well-being, yet unlike democratically elected leaders, their power does not come directly...

Die Finanzbeziehungen zwischen den staatlichen Ebenen brauchen eine neue Ordnung - hin zu mehr Entflechtung, mehr Transparenz und mehr Eigenverantwortung. Die Einkommensteuer bietet einen Ansatzpunkt, diese Ziele voranzutreiben. Als Gemeinschaftsteuer von Bund, Ländern und Gemeinden lässt sich...

We draw on a newly collected historical dataset of fiscal variables for a large panel of countries—to our knowledge, the most comprehensive database currently available—to gauge the degree of fiscal prudence or profligacy for each country over the past several decades. Specifically, our...

Das erfolgreiche Lehr- und Lernbuch zur "Öffentlichen Finanzwirtschaft" erscheint topaktuell bereits in der 14. Auflage. Die Autoren, langjährig erfahrene Dozenten an der Hochschule des Bundes für öffentliche Verwaltung, bieten eine sehr gut verständliche und mit zahlreichen Abbildungen und...

This book proposes new fiscal rules to address the debt crisis, including a balanced budget amendment and a deficit-debt brake. It estimates the impact of the proposed rules on the economy over the next two decades

This paper analyzes the impact of decentralization on overall fiscal performance in the European Union, taking into account fiscal institutional arrangements. We find that spending decentralization has been associated with sizably better fiscal performance, especially when transfer dependency of...

The view is widespread that there are just two options for the future of the Eurozone – either it is complemented by a fiscal union, or it will fall apart. In this paper, we discuss five possible elements of a fiscal union, of which three are in the centre of the current debate on fiscal union...

"How did England, once a minor regional power, become a global hegemon between 1689 and 1815? Why, over the same period, did she become the world's first industrial nation? Gary W. Cox addresses these questions in Marketing Sovereign Promises. The book examines two central issues: the origins of...