Federal Constitutional Court judgment on Fiscal Equalization among the States: A step in the right direction, but no solution for federal financial problems! - A commentary
Martin T. W. Rosenfeld
Wirtschaft im Wandel,
No. 16,
1999
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Bundesstaatliche Mischfinanzierung und Gemeindefinanzen in der Reform: Großer Änderungsbedarf, hohe Änderungskosten
Martin T. W. Rosenfeld
Fiskalpolitik in der Informationsgesellschaft,
2002
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Monetary Policy and the Transaction Role of Money in the US
Alexander Kriwoluzky, Christian A. Stoltenberg
Economic Journal,
No. 587,
2015
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The declining importance of money in transactions can explain the well-known fact that US interest rate policy was passive in the pre-Volcker period and active after 1982. We generalise a standard cashless new Keynesian model (Woodford, 2003) by incorporating an explicit transaction role for money. In the pre-Volcker period, we estimate that money did play an important role and determinacy required a passive interest rate policy. However, after 1982, money no longer played an important role in facilitating transactions. Correspondingly, the conventional view prevails and an active policy ensured equilibrium determinacy.
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The Reform of Local Public Services of General Interest in Europe
Peter Haug, Martin T. W. Rosenfeld
Applied Economics Quarterly (Supplement),
2004
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The benefits of a reduced supply of local public services may more than outweigh the supposed welfare losses. This was suggested by various theoretical and empirical investigations in many fields of economics during the last decades. Nevertheless, local and national politicians, trade unionists, charities, and other lobbyists have succeeded in preventing further liberalisation of “services of general interest” in Europe. This article examines why these preserve agents have been and are still successful. The analysis is based on an institutional economic approach. Several policy measures and institutional changes are suggested to either reduce influence of preserve agents or to compensate them for their losses.
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Sachsen-Anhalt als Wirtschaftsstandort: Wie erfolgreich sind das Land und seine Regionen?
Martin T. W. Rosenfeld
Geographische Rundschau,
2005
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The article examines the economic performance and the conditions for future economic development in the German Land of Saxony-Anhalt. After the integration of Saxony-Anhalt into the market economy since 1989, strong structural changes have taken place. Nevertheless, agriculture, coal mining and the chemical industry as some of the traditional sectors of the Land’s economy have remained their importance. The weak points of the economy are the low number of entrepreneurs and a low tendency for innovations in the private sector. The Magdeburg region and the Halle region have better conditions for (inter-) national competitiveness than the Altmark region and the Dessau region. But the potentials of the urban centers Magdeburg and Halle are - as compared to other East German cities - not very strong. For improving the eonomic conditions, new instruments for stimulating entrepreneurship and for strengthening the position of the two urban centers should be installed. In addition, innovation activities of private firms could be improved by new linkages between the private sector and Saxony-Anhalt’s public research units.
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Reform of joint tasks: How far can the federal and state governments disengage? A contribution to the discussion about the new establishment of the German system of public finance
Martin T. W. Rosenfeld
IWH Discussion Papers,
No. 91,
1999
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Netzwerke zwischen Hochschulen und Wirtschaft: Ein Mehrebenenansatz
Mirko Titze, Wilfried Ehrenfeld, Matthias Piontek, Gunnar Pippel
Schrumpfende Regionen - dynamische Hochschulen: Hochschulstrategien im demografischen Wandel,
2015
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Innovationen sind ein zentraler Treiber für das Wachstum von Unternehmen und Regionen. Es gibt daher eine breite Literatur, welche versucht, die Determinanten der Innovationsfähigkeit zu identifizieren. Kooperationen stellen einen wichtigen Faktor im Bereich Forschung und Entwicklung dar, da Verflechtungen den Fluss von Wissen zwischen den beteiligten Akteuren, wie beispielsweise Hochschulen und Unternehmen, unterstützen. Um derartige Verflechtungen abzubilden, haben sich in der Fachliteratur verschiedene Ansätze durchgesetzt. So können beispielsweise Informationen über Ko-Publikationen, Ko-Patente oder geförderte FuE-Vorhaben genutzt werden. Die verschiedenen Ansätze haben jedoch ihre individuellen Stärken und Schwächen. Zudem bilden sie jeweils verschiedene Facetten der Kooperation im Bereich Forschung und Entwicklung ab. Dieser Beitrag setzt an dieser Problematik an, indem er anhand von sechs Fallregionen einen Mehrebenenansatz vorstellt, welcher die genannten Ebenen von Kooperation zusammenführt. Dies ermöglicht, ein umfassendes Bild der Vernetzung in den Fallregionen zu erhalten.
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Monetary Policy in a World Where Money (Also) Matters
Makram El-Shagi, Sebastian Giesen
IWH Discussion Papers,
No. 6,
2012
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While the long-run relation between money and inflation as predicted by the quantity theory is well established, empirical studies of the short-run adjustment process have been inconclusive at best. The literature regarding the validity of the quantity theory within a given economy is mixed. Previous research has found support for quantity theory within a given economy by combining the P-Star, the structural VAR and the monetary aggregation literature. However, these models lack precise modelling of the short-run dynamics by ignoring interest rates as the main policy instrument. Contrarily, most New Keynesian approaches, while excellently modeling the short-run dynamics transmitted through interest rates, ignore the role of money and thus the potential mid-and long-run effects of monetary policy. We propose a parsimonious and fairly unrestrictive econometric model that allows a detailed look into the dynamics of a monetary policy shock by accounting for changes in economic equilibria, such as potential output and money demand, in a framework that allows for both monetarist and New Keynesian transmission mechanisms, while also considering the Barnett critique. While we confirm most New Keynesian findings concerning the short-run dynamics, we also find strong evidence for a substantial role of the quantity of money for price movements.
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