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Recent trends in household wealth in the United States: Rising debt and the middle-class squeeze - An update to 2007

Wolff, Edward N. - 2010

I find here that the early and mid-aughts (2001 to 2007) witnessed both exploding debt and a consequent 'middle-class squeeze.' Median wealth grew briskly in the late 1990s. It grew even faster in the aughts, while the inequality of net worth was up slightly. Indebtedness, which fell...

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Trade Credit and the Bank Lending Channel

Nilsen, Jeffrey H. - 1999

firms accelerate, loan growth. We find that small firms increase trade credit, a substitute credit, indicating a strong loan …-desirable alternative. Using trade credit is propitious since unlike commercial paper (investigated by previous researchers), it is widely … used by the small firms suffering the loan decline. Surprisingly, we also find large firms increase trade credit, a puzzle …

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Distributional consequences of capital accumulation, globalisation and financialisation in the US

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2012

In this paper we examine the dynamic contributions of capital accumulation, globalisation, and financialisation to the functional-personal income distribution nexus. We analyse the labour share under the prism of monopoly and frictional growth, and disclose the dramatic upward trend in...

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Equity capital, bankruptcy risk and the liquidity trap

Levintal, Oren - 2011

This paper explains the emergence of liquidity traps in the aftermath of large-scale financial crises, as happened in the US 1930s, Japan 1990s and recently in the US and Europe. The paper introduces a new balance sheet channel that links equity capital to the risk-free interest rate. When...

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The effects of the saving and banking glut on the U.S. economy

Justiniano, Alejandro; Primiceri, Giorgio E.; … - 2013

We use a quantitative equilibrium model with houses, collateralized debt and foreign borrowing to study the impact of global imbalances on the U.S. economy in the 2000s. Our results suggest that the dynamics of foreign capital flows account for between one fourth and one third of the increase in...

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Measuring the stability of a dynamic system: The case of the stock market turmoil 2007-2008

Bask, Mikael; Widerberg, Anna - 2010

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how the change in actual and potential market risks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) during the two-year period 2007-2008 can be analyzed with the help of-analysis. In the empirical analysis, the average of the Lyapunov exponents for the dynamic...

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On the Wealth Dynamics of Swedish Families 1984-1998

Klevmarken, N. Anders - 2001

This paper focuses on three issues. First, it analyses the increasing inequality of wealth in Sweden in terms of percentile age and birth cohort differences. Second, it discusses mobility of wealth as a function of age, length of the transition period, the magnitude of quantile differences, and...

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Greenspan and the Greenbook

Tchaidze, Robert R. - 2002

A vast literature has emerged using Taylor rules to analyze monetary policy Although very attractive both theoretically and empirically such rules imply a mechanical response by the policy variable to fundamental ones This study looks for empirical evidence of a more sophisticated monetary...

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The Rise and Fall of U.S. Inflation Persistence

Beechey, Meredith; Österholm, Pär - 2007

This paper estimates the path of inflation persistence in the United States over the last 50 years and draws implications about the evolution of the Federal Reserve's monetary-policy preferences. Standard models of central bank optimization predict that the central bank's preference for output...

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The Taylor Rule: A Spurious Regression?

Österholm, Pär - 2003

This paper investigates the econometric properties of the Taylor (1993) rule applied to U.S., Australian and Swedish data to judge its empirical relevance. Little attention has been paid to the time series properties of the data underlying interest rate rules, nor the estimations themselves,...

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