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Growing like Germany: local public debt, local banks, low private investment

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2023
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Hoffmann, M., Stewen, I., & Stiefel, M. (2023). Growing like Germany: local public debt, local banks, low private investment (No. 380; Working Paper Series / Department of Economics).

Abstract

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Abstract

Over 2010-2016, municipal debt in Germany crowded out private investment worth 1 percent of GDP. Forced to lend to municipalities by their statutes, local public banks compensated for declining municipal-debt yields by charging higher rates to firms in Germany’s locally segmented credit markets. The ensuing crowding out was made worse by increased municipal borrowing when expensive fiscal commitments were shifted from federal and state to the municipal levels following the introduction of the debt brake. Our results identify new chann

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Working paper series / Department of Economics

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Working Paper

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E40
E62
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G28
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H32

Keywords

Local public finance, firm-level investment, crowding out, fiscal austerity, fiscal rules, global and intra-European imbalances

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Discipline-based scholarship (basic research)

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English

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2023-12

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2021-03-12

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36

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1664-705X

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Revised version. Auch publiziert als Bank of Finland Research Discussion Paper No. 9/2022, CESifo Working Paper No. 9496 und CEPR Discussion Paper 15912.

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Green

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merlin-id:20862

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Hoffmann, M., Stewen, I., & Stiefel, M. (2023). Growing like Germany: local public debt, local banks, low private investment (No. 380; Working Paper Series / Department of Economics).

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