The burden of German unification: a generational accounting approach

Jagadeesh Gokhale, Bernd Raffelhuschen and Jan Walliser

No 9412, Working Papers (Old Series) from Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Abstract: An assessment of the generational stance of postunification German fiscal policy and an estimate of the burden of unification-related fiscal measures on West German generations, finding that future generations will bear much larger lifetime net tax burdens than current newborns.

Keywords: Germany; Fiscal policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1994
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