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Introduction For a number of years, Germany has been at the centre of the European debate about increasing public investment. With record-large current account surpluses, increasing public investment in Germany has often been seen as a possible remedy to imbalances in the euro area (OECD 2016; IMF 2018). Within Germany, the debate has focused on insufficiencies of the public capital stock and especially public infrastructure and has intensified over time (Expertenkommission 2015; Bardt et al.... |