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How do trade patterns change after an external shock such as an economic crisis, and is this shift structural? This …
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decline in output. In addition, output does not revert quickly to its initial level after an oil price shock, but declines …
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We propose a microeconomic foundation of the multiplier effect and that of the consumption function using a dynamic optimization model that explains a shortage of aggregate demand and unemployment. We show that government purchases boost aggregate demand through a multiplier-like process but...
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This paper develops a neo-Kaleckian endogenous growth model that incorporates aggregate supply - demand balance and balance between labor force and employment growth. The paper explicitly models income distribution which is a critical channel whereby unemployment affects investment and growth....
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Households in some European countries increased their indebtedness massively over the past 20 years. Besides household debt, also government debt and corporate debt are in some countries at levels not seen before. While there is a common agreement that these high debt levels are not sustainable...
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Since the end of the Great Recession in mid-2009, the unemployment rate has recovered slowly, falling by only one percentage point from its peak. We find that the lackluster labor market recovery can be traced in large part to weakness in aggregate demand; only a small part seems attributable to...
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Die Corona-Pandemie sowie die zu ihrer Eindämmung in vielen Staaten getroffenen Maßnahmen gehen mit einer massiven Beeinträchtigung der Wirtschaftsaktivität einher. In diesem Papier werden die verschiedenen volkswirtschaftlichen Einschränkungen diskutiert, denen Unternehmen, Arbeitnehmer...
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Eine zentrale Ursache der aktuellen Krise, die von international renommierten Ökonomen betont wird aber in der öffentlichen Debatte in Deutschland noch wenig Beachtung findet, ist die rasante Zunahme der Einkommensungleichheit in vielen Industrieländern, aber auch in einigen...
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Renate Neubäumer, Universität Koblenz-Landau, analysiert die Nachfrageentwicklung in Griechenland zwischen 2000 und 2013 und kommt zu den Ansicht, dass für den Einbruch der Wirtschaftsleistung Griechenlands die Fiskalpolitik zweitrangig war. Entscheidender war der Rückgang anderer...
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