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The size distributions of many economic variables seem to obey the double power law, that is, the power law holds in both the upper and the lower tails. I explain the emergence of the double power law - which has important economic, econometric, and social implications - using a tractable...
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We study how income inequality affects monetary policy through the inequality-household debt channel. We design a … rate and decreasing bankruptcies during the household's debt boom phase. When inequality meets financial liberalization, a … that inequality may constrain the central bank, even when it is not explicitly targeted. …
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This paper investigates the macroeconomic and asset pricing consequences of the upward trend in financial market participation observed in the U.S. since the late 1980s. In a limited participation two-agent Real Business Cycle model where stockholders feature external habit preferences, higher...
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households. Aggregate shocks through their impact on the spread give rise to consumption inequality. We show this mechanism to be …
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Over the last four decades, the U.S. economy has experienced a few secular trends, each of which may be considered undesirable in some aspects: declining labor share; rising profit share; rising income and wealth inequalities; and rising household sector leverage and associated financial...
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of financialisation in the context of the postKeynesian theory of the firm and explain the other channels from there. An …
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This paper examines credit market policies under pecuniary externalities induced by collateral constraints. Pigouvian taxes/subsidies on debt or savings are derived as Ramsey-optimal policies. Firstly, prudential (ex-ante) debt taxes can restore constrained efficiency. Secondly, when policies...
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entering an era of increasing income inequality. In this article, the link between financial wealth and pre-tax household …
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