This paper is the first to decompose absolute global income inequality into its within-country ?class? and between-country ?location? components. The estimates show that until 1970 locational income differences were the main driver of absolute global inequality, whereas its recent growth can be...

Este trabajo analiza el impacto del boom minero-energético experimentado por la economía colombiana en el período 2004-2012 sobre la tasa de cambio real y la participación de los sectores manufacturero e industrial. Para ello se introduce el concepto de “Enfermedad holandesa extendida”,...

In this study, we estimate the impact of the 2004-2012 energy and mining boom on the real effective exchange rate in Colombia and the sectoral composition of its economy. To this end, we introduce the new “extended Dutch Disease” concept, according to which a currency appreciation may not...

La actual crisis financiera internacional iniciadaen 2008 en Estados Unidos ha puesto de nuevo enel debate académico y político la importancia delsistema financiero en la economía, las posibilidadesde política económica disponibles para apoyarlo ysus implicaciones en el corto y largo plazo....

Rising income inequality has recently moved into the centre of political and economic debates in line with increasing claims that a global rise in income inequality might have been a root cause of the subprime crisis. This paper provides an extensive overview of world scale developments in...

An increasing number of economists argue that income inequality was a root cause behind the subprime crisis of 2007. The aim of this paper is to outline and contrast the theoretical underpinnings of Marxian, Post Keynesian and mainstream crisis theories and to compare their viewpoints regarding...

Although the federal funds rate started rising from mid-2004 US long term rates continued to fall. A likely contributory factor to this conundrum was the contemporaneous increase in US bond demand. Using ARDL-based models, which accommodate structural breaks, this paper estimates the impact of...

The crisis that broke out in mid-2007 was caused by the fact that the CDO market had grown to a size sufficient to wreak general havoc when it suddenly collapsed. Several authors have argued that economic inequality was important to the growth of this market. This paper attempts to strengthen...

Although the federal funds rate started rising from mid-2004 US long term rates continued to fall. A likely contributory factor to this ‘conundrum’ was the contemporaneous increase in US bond demand. Using ARDL based models, which accommodate structural breaks, this paper estimates the...

This paper compares changes in relative and absolute wealth concentrations to establish if both processes have followed similar trajectories. The findings indicate that while the level of relative wealth concentration has increased recently, it is not extraordinarily high in an historical...