In dieser Studie werden längerfristige Tendenzen im Zusammenspiel von Finanzsystem und realwirtschaftlicher Entwicklung in den USA und in Deutschland diskutiert. Mit dem Schlagwort der "Finanzialisierung" wird häufig ein allgemeiner Bedeutungsgewinn des Finanzsektors einer Volkswirtschaft...

In this paper we analyse the effects of financialisation on income distribution, before and after the Great Financial Crisis and the Great Recession. The focus is on functional income distribution and thus on the relationship between financialisation and the wage share or the gross profit share....

Since the early 1980s, financialisation has become an increasingly important trend in developed capitalist countries, with different beginnings, speed and intensities in different countries. Rising inequality has been a major feature of this trend. Shares of wages in national income have...

Books reviewed: Julio Lopez G., Michael Assous (2010): Michal Kalecki, Basingstoke Alberto Quadrio Curzio, Valeria Miceli (2010): Sovereign Wealth Funds. A Complete Guide to State-Owned Investment Funds, Petersfield Hansjörg Herr, Milka Kazandziska (2011): Macroeconomic Policy Regimes in...

In this second issue of the European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention (EJEEP), the Papers and Proceedings of the Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM), 1 we publish some invited papers which were presented at the 17th FMM conference on 'The...

We review post-Keynesian assessments of the macroeconomic demand and growth impacts of financialisation. First, we examine the channels of influence of financialisation on distribution and on the different components of private aggregate demand, i.e. investment, consumption and net exports....

The macroeconomic effects of 'financialisation' are assessed applying two different variants of a Kaleckian model of distribution and growth. The focus is on the effects of changes in distribution between shareholders/rentiers, firms and workers, as well as on the effects of increasing...

We review recent attempts to integrate 'financialisation' processes into Post-Keynesian distribution and growth models and distinguish three principal channels of influence: 1. objectives and finance restrictions of firms, 2. new opportunities for households' wealth-based and debt-financed...

We tackle the issue of the possible instability of the Kaleckian distribution and growth model and the consequences for the endogeneity of the equilibrium rate of capacity utilization and for the paradox of thrift and the paradox of costs. Distinguishing between Keynesian and Harrodian...