Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/215899 
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Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 138/2020
Publisher: 
Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin, Institute for International Political Economy (IPE), Berlin
Abstract: 
In this paper, the focus lies on the way the German government spends, how it spends and what the connection between finance ministry and central bank is. The institutions involved in the process are identified and discussed. As a member of the Eurozone, Germany's national central bank is not allowed to buy sovereign securities on its own account. The German government uses taxes and revenues from sovereign security issues to finance its spending, continuing the institutional framework that existed during the era of the deutsch mark. This description confirms the idea that 'the state spends first' also in the Eurozone and that it makes sense to consolidate central bank and government(s) even when a government is not issuing a sovereign currency.
Subjects: 
government spending
fiscal
monetary
Treasury
sovereign default
Eurozone
JEL: 
E63
B52
E42
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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