The debt brake of the German states: a faulty design?
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Keywords
Debt brake; Balanced budget requirement; Tax autonomy; Investment expenditure;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H61 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Budget; Budget Systems
- H63 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt
- H74 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Borrowing
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