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The empirical literature on neo-Goodwinian models of growth and distribution still lacks an explicit treatment of …
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In this paper, Structural Vector Autoregressive (SVAR) models of quarterly data between 2007 and 2021 are estimated to assess short-term regimes of aggregate demand and distribution in Germany. The obtained Impulse Response Functions (IRFs) of the conventional neo-Goodwinian baseline case, with...
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growth, and that of the era before the Great Depression. However, no study of the demand regime has been done for the early …
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chapter titled "A growth cycle." We review theoretical motivations for the distributive cycle, which, despite significant …
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chapter titled "A growth cycle." We review theoretical motivations for the distributive cycle, which, despite significant …
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This paper studies two formal models of long run growth with a medium-run distributive cycle, both of which feature … consistent with the observed decline of the labor share, the income-capital ratio, and labor productivity growth during the … neoliberal era. Importantly, both theories: (a) provide space for mutually reinforcing pro-labor and pro-growth policies in the …
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The present paper offers a fundamental critique of fiscal policy as it is understood in theory and exercised in practice. Two specific demand-side stabilization methods are examined here: conventional pump priming and the new designation of fiscal policy effectiveness found in the New Consensus...
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distribution, investment, aggregate demand and output. A baseline version of the model can generate endogenous growth cycles, but …
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Fiscal policy has become quite controversial in the post-Keynesian era, the debate over the Obama stimulus package being a contentious recent example. Some pundits go so far as to take the position that macroeconomic theory has failed to meaningfully progress in terms of providing useful...
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Recently, some have wondered whether a fiscal stimulus plan could reduce the government's budget deficit. Many also worry that fiscal austerity plans will only bring higher deficits. Issues of this kind involve endogenous changes in tax revenues that occur when output, real wages, and other...
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