Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/102183 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 4928
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
In this paper we analyze the sustainability of public finances in the states (Laender) of the Federal Republic of Germany using an unprecedentedly comprehensive fiscal dataset for the time period from 1950 to 2011 for West German Laender and 1991 to 2011 for East German Laender, respectively. In order to assess the fiscal sustainability of the (Laender) we, first, examine the stationarity characteristics of public debt, revenues and expenditures. Second, we explore the long]run relation between expenditures and revenues in a cointegration analysis within each Land. The results provide evidence against strict fiscal sustainability in most of the 16 German Laender. A notable exception to this finding is Bavaria.
Subjects: 
fiscal sustainability
federalism
unit root
cointegration
public debt
JEL: 
H62
H77
H72
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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