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Taking stock of the EU Fiscal rules over the past 20 years and options for re...
This paper reviews how the European Union’s fiscal rules have developed from the Maastricht Treaty that established the single monetary policy up until today. It shows that the... -
Public Preferences for Government Spending Priorities: Survey Evidence from G...
Employing data from a representative survey conducted in Germany, this paper examines public preferences for the size and composition of government expenditure. We focus on... -
Optimal Social Insurance and Health Inequality
This paper integrates into public economics a biologically founded, stochastic process of individual ageing. The novel approach enables us to quantitatively characterize the...