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Die Schuldenbremse der Bundesländer: eine Fehlkonstruktion?

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  • Gebhard Kirchgässner

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The debt brake for the German Länder, which forbids them from taking on new net debt beginning in 2020, has two major shortcomings. First, the Länder do not have tax autonomy. In fiscal crises, they can only adjust on the expenditure side, not on the revenue side. Given the fact that most expenditure is predetermined by law, in such a crisis, a balanced budget without new debt would hardly be feasible. Second, it is not taken into account that, in particular in small regional units, large investments can hardly be financed by current expenditure. Thus, there is a very high probability that at least some Länder will still take on new net debt after 2020 and, therefore, violate the rules of the debt brake. Copyright ZBW and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014

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  • Gebhard Kirchgässner, 2014. "Die Schuldenbremse der Bundesländer: eine Fehlkonstruktion?," Wirtschaftsdienst, Springer;ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 94(10), pages 721-724, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:wirtsc:v:94:y:2014:i:10:p:721-724
    DOI: 10.1007/s10273-014-1739-x
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    H70; H71; H74;
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    • H70 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - General
    • H71 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
    • H74 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Borrowing

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