Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/142209 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IWH Online No. 8/2015
Publisher: 
Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH), Halle (Saale)
Abstract: 
In a recent IWH online note, the IWH suggested that due to “flight to safety” effects, Germany was able to issue government debt at lower rates than otherwise would have been possible. The total savings was calculated to be around Euro 100 billion or about 3 percent of German GDP. This note provides further evidence on the interest savings to the German budget that extend the calculations in two dimensions. Using this refined methodology, we obtain interest savings to the German budget of just under Euro 90 billion.
Subjects: 
European Union
Greek crisis
government bonds
German public budget
Greece
Germany
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Document Type: 
Research Report

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