Selected Issues
- Format
- Paper
- Frequency
- regular
- ISBN
- 9798400283406
- ISSN
- 1934-7685
- Pages
- 31
- Published in
- United States of America
- Series
- Country Report No. 2024/230
- StockNumber
- 1DEUEA2024002
Table of Contents
- Options for Creating Fiscal Room for Investment And Other Spending Needs0F 4
- A. Introduction 4
- B. Germany’s Government Revenue and Expenditure Levels in International Comparison 6
- C. Option 1: Finding Efficiencies in Healthcare Spending 7
- D. Option 2: Stabilizing Social Security Finances 9
- E. Option 3: Eliminating Environmentally Harmful Subsidies 11
- F. Option 4: Raising Revenues from Goods and Services Taxes 14
- G. Option 5: Raising Property Taxes and Closing Loopholes in Inheritance and Gift Taxes 16
- H. Option 6: Earning Higher Returns on the Government’s Assets 17
- I. Conclusion 18
- FINANCIAL STABILITY RISKS FROM COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE23F 21
- A. Introduction 21
- B. Real Estate Developments 21
- C. Exposure of German Financial Institutions to CRE 24
- D. Solvency Stress Analysis 25
- E. Policy Recommendations 28
