The Perfect Finance Minister: Whom to Appoint as Finance Minister to Balance the Budget?

The role and influence of the finance minister within the cabinet are discussed with increasing prominence in the recent theoretical literature on the political economy of budget deficits. It is generally assumed that the spending ministers can raise their reputation purely with new or more extensive expenditure programs, whereas solely the finance minister is interested to balance the budget. Using a dynamic panel model to study the development of public deficits in the German states between 1960 and 2009, we identify several personal characteristics of the finance ministers that significantly influence budgetary performance. Namely her professional background seems to affect budget deficits. During times of fiscal stress, our results can guide prime ministers in the nominating of finance ministers in order to assure sound budgeting

Schediasma Historicum, Quo, Occasione Definitionis vetustae, quâ Philosophia dicitur γνωσις των όντων, varia discutiuntur Ad Historiam tùm Philosophicam, tùm Ecclesiasticam pertinentia: Inprimis autem inquiritur in ultimas Origines Philosophiae Gentilis, & quatuor in eâ Sectarum apud Graecos praecipuarum; Haereseos item Simonis Magi, Gnosticorum, Massalianorum et Pelagianorum; denique theologiae Mysticae pariter ac Scholasticae

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Geschichte aus dem Negativen. Christian Thomasius und die Historiographie des Fehlers und Vorurteils

Il saggio ricostruisce la dottrina del sapere umano formulata dai Christian Thomasius, il quale assegna alla storia della filosofia un compito soprattutto negativo, quello di liberare l'umanit\ue0 dagli errori e dai pregiudizi che la tormentano