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Structural Reforms, Growth and Inequality : An Overview of Theory, Measurement and Evidence
Campos, Nauro F. - 2018
This paper provides a critical overview of the state of the art in the economics literature on structural reforms. It takes stock of theoretical developments, measurement efforts and of the econometric evidence. We start with a simple theoretical framework for the relationship between structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927189
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Inequity Aversion, Welfare Measurement and the Gini Index
Schmidt, Ulrich - 2018
Over the last decades, research in behavioural economics has demonstrated that individual welfare (utility), as relevant for economic decision making, depends not only on absolut but also on distributional aspects. Moreover, evidence is gathering that something similar holds for aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916152
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Financial Development and Inequality in the Global Economy
von Ehrlich, Maximilian - 2016
We build a heterogeneous-firms model with firm-specific wages and credit frictions to study the role of financial development for inequality in the global economy. If there are many small firms, better access to external funds reduces wage inequality and unemployment. In contrast, if there are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996265
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Adverse Effects of Ultra-Loose Monetary Policies on Investment, Growth and Income Distribution
Hoffmann, Andreas - 2016
The paper analyses adverse investment, growth and distributional effects of ultra-loose monetary policies based on the monetary overinvestment theories of Hayek and Mises. We argue that ultra-loose monetary policies create incentives to substitute real investment by financial investment. When...
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Factor Income Distribution and Endogenous Economic Growth - When Piketty Meets Romer
Irmen, Andreas - 2017
We scrutinize Thomas Piketty's (2014) theory concerning the relationship between an economy's long-run growth rate, its … of Piketty's Second Fundamental Law of Capitalism does not hold. In line with Piketty's theory a smaller long-run growth …, both the economy's savings rate and its growth rate are endogenous variables whereas in Piketty's theory they are both …
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Discounting, Inequalities and Economic Convergence
Gollier, Christian - 2013
The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of inequalities and economic convergence on the efficient discount rate, in the absence of any risk-sharing scheme. We consider an economy in which the initial consumption level and the distribution of consumption growth are heterogeneous. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013094078
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Inequality, Structure of Production and International Trade – The Role of Credit Market Imperfection
Beladi, Hamid - 2017
Credit rationing in the presence of asset inequality affects production and trade pattern in this paper, but not in the conventional way. A Ricardian general equilibrium framework with heterogeneous levels of asset ownership is developed to show that more equal asset distribution may contract...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962668
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Globalization, Wage Polarization, and the Unstable Great Ratio
Cozzi, Guido - 2014
The US labour market has experienced a remarkable polarization in the 1980s and 1990s. Moreover, recent empirical work has documented a sharp increase in the wealth to income ratio in that period. Contemporary to these inequality trends, the US faced a fast technological catch-up as European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044598
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Persistence of High Income Inequality and Banking Crises : 1980-2010
Bellettini, Giorgio - 2013
Differently from Atkinson and Morelli (2011) who detect no clear link between increases in income inequality and systemic banking crises, we show that a large majority of crises occurred between 1982 and 2008 have been preceded by persistently high levels of income inequality. Such association...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079867
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Cross-Country Income Differences and Technology Diffusion in a Competitive World
Irmen, Andreas - 2012
-degenerate world income distribution. In accordance with the empirical literature, I find that country characteristics such as the … policies such as subsidies to innovation investments explain a country's position in the eventual world income distribution …
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