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Wie die deutsche Einheit die Länder im Finanzausgleich belastet hat

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  • Thomas Döring
  • Lorenz Blume

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In Germany there is a political consensus that the economic and fiscal burden of the German reunification should be shared by all three jurisdictional levels of the federal system. According to existing law, the burden-sharing between the state and local authorities has to be confined to the excess burden which follows from the financing of the German Unity Fund as well as the integration of the eastern German states into the fiscal equalisation system. State and local authorities are in conflict with each other regarding an appropriate economic estimate of the excess burden to be caused by the fiscal equalisation system. Against this background, the paper estimates the average excess burden of the western German states as a whole as well as individual excess burdens of selected German states for the time period 1995 to 2009 by applying a multivariate data analysis. Copyright ZBW and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

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  • Thomas Döring & Lorenz Blume, 2013. "Wie die deutsche Einheit die Länder im Finanzausgleich belastet hat," Wirtschaftsdienst, Springer;ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 93(6), pages 396-404, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:wirtsc:v:93:y:2013:i:6:p:396-404
    DOI: 10.1007/s10273-013-1540-2
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    C33; H77;

    JEL classification:

    • C33 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
    • H77 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - Intergovernmental Relations; Federalism

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