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From its publication in The Times in 1933, John Maynard Keynes’s investment multiplier sparked much debate and … theoretical merits of this multiplier. Even the biggest opponents like Friedman have only questioned the multiplier value, judged … to be closed from 1 in the permanent income that competes with it. We will show in this first article that the multiplier …
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Motivated by the apparent failure of the credit multiplier mechanism (CM) to deliver amplification in DSGE models, we …
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The paper examines the long-run fluctuations in growth and distribution through the prism of wage-and profit-led growth. We argue that the relation between distribution of income and growth changes over time. We propose an endogenous mechanism that leads to fluctuations between wage- and...
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The present paper emphasizes the role of demand, income distribution, endogenous productivity reactions, and other structural changes in the slowdown of the growth rate of output and productivity that has been observed in the United States over the last four decades. In particular, it is...
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The paper builds on the concept of (shifting) involvements, originally proposed by Albert Hirschman (2002 [1982]). However, unlike Hirschman, the concept is framed in class terms. A model is presented where income distribution is determined by the involvement of the two classes, capitalists and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891592
The paper examines the long-run fluctuations in growth and distribution through the prism of wage- and profit-led growth. We argue that the relation between distribution of income and growth changes over time. We propose an endogenous mechanism that leads to fluctuations between wage- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048029
The present paper emphasizes the role of demand, income distribution, endogenous productivity reactions, and other structural changes in the slowdown of the growth rate of output and productivity that has been observed in the United States over the last four decades. In particular, it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012165405
Fiscal spending multiplier calculations have been revived in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Much of the … current literature is based on VAR estimation methods and DSGE models. The aim of this paper is not a further deepening of … multiplier for EU members. Multipliers for specific spending categories are comparably high, ranging between 1.4 and 1.8 for many …
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After the Global Financial Crisis a controversial rush to fiscal austerity followed in many countries. Yet research on the effects of austerity on macroeconomic aggregates was and still is unsettled, mired by the difficulty of identifying multipliers from observational data. This paper...
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This paper examines issues related to the estimation of the government spending multiplier (GSM) in a Dynamic … to cross-equation restrictions, omitting the endogenous component of government policy at the estimation stage would lead …
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