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Events // 22.05.2025
edition of the ZEW Annual Public Finance Conference. The conference will take place on 22 and 23 May in Mannheim, Germany. The annual conference aims to cover all fields of public economics. This year’s [...] year’s keynote lectures and invited sessions will address the future direction of the EU budget. Both empirical and theoretical papers are welcome, including completed papers and papers in progress. Submissions
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Publications // 31.10.2024
NextGenerationEU (NGEU), macroeconomically significant debt has been incurred via the European Union (EU) budget for the first time. It is controversial whether this marks the start of continuous EU debt. This [...] the Member States’ focus on reflows and the rather declining consensus on desirable European public goods. The analysis concludes that new EU debt on an NGEU scale is unlikely without the catalyst
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Press Releases // 24.10.2024ended the practice of creative off-budget accounting, the economic downturn is now hitting revenues in full. It’s not just policymakers who need to wake up; the public must too. It is impossible to ramp [...] of its new analysis today. Friedrich Heinemann, head of the Research Unit “Corporate Taxation and Public Finance” at ZEW Mannheim and professor at Heidelberg University, has commented on this matter: -
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Publications // 22.10.2024
for sustainable products, which represents one-sixth of the total federal procurement budget, and publicly traded firms, which account for one-third of total US emissions. Our results show that [...] Governments can support the green transition through green public procurement. Despite its strategic importance, the impact of this policy on firms remains unclear. Using US data, this paper [...] in the long run. We find no evidence that the program selects greener firms, nor that green public procurement sales crowd out private sales. We propose that increased R&D investment, in
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Press Releases // 10.09.2024
narrative that countries with sound public finances have an unfair advantage in the single market, distorting it. However, he barely addresses the risks posed by unsustainable public debt in highly indebted countries [...] versus irresponsible fiscal policy. Unfortunately, the call to set priorities for European public goods in the EU budget is far too vague. A bolder report might have demanded cuts in the Common Agricultural [...] convincing direction. Instead, it contributes to further neglecting key challenges – prioritising public budgets, reforming social security systems and reducing tax and contribution burdens – in Europe’s reform
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Events // 11.09.2024
population has increased, these pensions have become increasingly burdensome, particularly for state budgets. As a result, legislators across the US are rethinking and redesigning fringe benefit schemes for [...] benefit design and time preferences among the largest subset of state and local employees in the US – public school teachers. The sick-leave scheme faced by these teachers is very common in the US, but unique
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Press Releases // 22.07.2024initiative as part of the 2025 budget, which includes tax concessions for foreign skilled workers. Dr. Katharina Nicolay, deputy head of the “Corporate Taxation and Public Finance” Unit at ZEW Mannheim
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Press Releases // 08.07.2024
Rally (RN) came in third. Friedrich Heinemann, head of the ZEW Research Unit “Corporate Taxation and Public Finance” and professor at Heidelberg University, has commented on this matter: - “The outcome of [...] very tangible consequences for the next EU financial framework. An ambitious expansion of the EU budget now stands little chance, given the Franco-German disagreement on the direction of the integration [...] economic and European policy of fiscal responsibility. The expected further deterioration of French public finances would be clearly self-inflicted. It is hard to imagine that a German government would back
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Publications // 27.06.2024
federal budget been subject to so much controversy as that for the coming year. Since the Federal Constitutional Court’s ruling in November 2023 on the federal government’s supplementary budget, public finances [...] finances have been on everyone’s lips. Shadow budgets, special funds, and EU debt are fuelling the debate on proper and transparent budget management. Against this backdrop, the June edition [...] focuses on the topic of “Public Finances”. In collaboration with Deloitte, the ZEW team has developed a concept for target- and outcome-driven budget management, which has been acknowledged
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Press Releases // 01.07.2024solution and promote more target-driven spending in the federal budget,” adds co-author Paul Steger, researcher in ZEW’s “Corporate Taxation and Public Finance” Unit. [...] rather than sustainable investment. The analysis focuses on how financial leeway in the federal budget from 2010 to 2019 was used in order to draw conclusions on the extent to which additional budgetary [...] to a ratio of three to one,” explains Friedrich Heinemann, head of ZEW’s “Corporate Taxation and Public Finance” Unit. “Policymakers need to better prioritise the available budgetary funds. A reform of