Artikel
Behebung eines Webfehlers: Wie die Konjunkturkomponente demokratisch legitimiert und nachhaltiger werden könnte
The optimisation of the cyclical adjustment procedure under the German debt brake should focus on how to contribute to a democratically legitimate and sustainable fiscal policy. In this article, we discuss four criteria that should be satisfied: The method must (i) be sufficiently determined, (ii) take the current state of research into account, (iii) incentivise a policy that enhances supply-side capacities, and (iv) be transparent. We show that today's form of the cyclically adjusted budget balance does not satisfy these criteria, and we propose a reform. Finally, we discuss several recent trends in German fiscal policy, questioning whether such a reform can save the debt brake's plausibility.
- Alternative title
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Fixing a design error
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Deutsch
- Bibliographic citation
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Journal: Wirtschaftsdienst ; ISSN: 1613-978X ; Volume: 102 ; Year: 2022 ; Issue: 11 ; Pages: 826-829 ; Heidelberg: Springer
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
Fiscal Policy
National Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Schuster, Florian
Sigl-Glöckner, Philippa
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Veröffentlichung
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Springer
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Heidelberg
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2022
- DOI
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doi:10.1007/s10273-022-3323-0
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- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Artikel
Associated
- Schuster, Florian
- Sigl-Glöckner, Philippa
- Springer
Time of origin
- 2022