Sebastian Hauptmeier

Efficient Revenue Sharing and Upper Level Governments: Theory and Application to Germany

Thiess Büttner, Sebastian Hauptmeier, Robert Schwager

Recent literature has emphasized that redistributive grant systems may tend to internalize fiscal externalities arising from tax competition. This paper further explores the conditions under which...

Efficient Revenue Sharing and Upper Level Governments: Theory and Application to Germany

Buettner, Thiess, Hauptmeier, Sebastian, Schwager, Robert

Recent literature has emphasized that redistributive grant systems may tend to internalize fiscal externalities arising from tax competition. This paper further explores the conditions under which...

Expenditure reform in industralised countries : a case study approach

Hauptmeier, Sebastian, Heipertz, Martin, Schuknecht, Ludger

This study examines reforms of public expenditure in industrialised countries over the past two decades. We distinguish ambitious and timid reformers and analyse in detail reform experiences in eight...

Intergovernmental grants and public input provision : theory and evidence from Germany

Hauptmeier, Sebastian

This paper uses a simple model of fiscal competition between local jurisdictions to analyse the impact of intergovernmental grants on the composition of public spending. We find that a higher degree...

Expenditure Reform in Industrialised Countries: A Case-Study Approach*

Sebastian Hauptmeier, Martin Heipertz, Ludger Schuknecht

This study examines reforms of public expenditure in industrialised countries over the past two decades. We distinguish ambitious and timid reformers and analyse in detail reform experiences in eight...

Expenditure reform in industrialised countries - a case study approach.

Sebastian Hauptmeier, Martin Heipertz, Ludger Schuknecht

This study examines reforms of public expenditure in industrialised countries over the past two decades. We distinguish ambitious and timid reformers and analyse in detail reform experiences in eight...

The Impact of Fiscal Equalization on Local Expenditure Policies: Theory and Evidence from Germany

Hauptmeier, Sebastian

This paper uses a simple model of fiscal competition in taxes and public inputs among local jurisdictions to analyze the incentive effects of fiscal equalization transfers. We find that a...

Fiscal Competition over Taxes and Public Inputs: Theory and Evidence

Sebastian Hauptmeier, Ferdinand Mittermaier, Johannes Rincke

We set up a model to characterize the reaction functions of governments competing for mobile capital by simultaneously setting both the business tax rate as well as the level of provision of a...

Fiscal competition over taxes and public inputs - theory and evidence.

Sebastian Hauptmeier, Ferdinand Mittermaier, Johannes Rincke

We set up a model to characterize the reaction functions of governments competing for mobile capital by simultaneously setting both the business tax rate as well as the level of provision of a...

Public Debt and Economic Growth: a Granger Causality Panel Data Approach

António Afonso, Sebastian Hauptmeier

This paper analyses the Granger-causality relationship between the growth of the real GDP per capita and the public debt, here represented by the ratio of the current primary surplus/GDP and the...

Fiscal behaviour in the European Union: rules, fiscal decentralization and government indebtedness.

António Afonso, Sebastian Hauptmeier

We assess the fiscal behaviour in the European Union countries for the period 1990-2005 via the responsiveness of budget balances to several determinants. The results show that the existence of...

Auswirkungen einer Länderfusion auf die öffentlichen Finanzen am Beispiel von Schleswig-Holstein und Hamburg

Thiess Büttner, Sebastian Hauptmeier

In diesem Beitrag werden einige finanzwissenschaftliche Anmerkungen zu den Vorteilen einer Länderfusion von Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein getroffen und in den Kontext der bestehenden...

Fiscal competition over taxes and public inputs - theory and evidence.

Sebastian Hauptmeier, Ferdinand Mittermaier, Johannes Rincke

We set up a model to characterize the reaction functions of governments competing for mobile capital by simultaneously setting both the business tax rate as well as the level of provision of a...

Fiscal behaviour in the European Union: rules, fiscal decentralization and government indebtedness.

António Afonso, Sebastian Hauptmeier

We assess the fiscal behaviour in the European Union countries for the period 1990-2005 via the responsiveness of budget balances to several determinants. The results show that the existence of...