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Financialization is a process whereby financial markets, financial institutions and financial elites gain greater influence over economic policy and economic outcomes. Financialization transforms the functioning of economic system at both the macro and micro levels. Its principal impacts are to...
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We analyse the long-run imbalances of finance-dominated capitalism underlying the present crisis - which began in 2007 - with a focus on developments in the US and Germany. We argue that beyond inefficient regulation of the financial sector, the severeness of the present crisis has been mainly...
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Finanzialisierung ist ein Prozess, in dessen Verlauf Finanzmärkte, -institutionen und -eliten zunehmend Einfluss auf Wirtschaftspolitik und ökonomische Ergebnisse gewinnen. Finanzialisierung transformiert die Funktionsweise des ökonomischen Systems sowohl auf der Makro- als auch auf der...
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Kalecki devised a novel method of analysis, which was also used by some of his collaborators.Unfortunately however … present paper is to revisit Kalecki’s applied studies. I will in the first place explain and discuss Kalecki’s outlook and … downswing. The results of have been rather disappointing. Using Kalecki’s approach and methodology, I have verified that it has …
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This paper takes off from Jan Kregel's paper "Shylock and Hamlet, or Are There Bulls and Bears in the Circuit?" (1986), which aimed to remedy shortcomings in most expositions of the "circuit approach". While some "circuitistes" have rejected John Maynard Keynes's liquidity preference theory,...
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Most empirical macroeconomic research limited to the period since World War II. This paper analyses the effects of changes in income distribution and in private wealth on consumption and investment covering a period from as early as 1855 until 2010 for the UK, France, Germany and USA, based on...
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This paper presents a simple illustrative post-Kaleckian model of distribution and growth that incorporates personal income inequality and interdependent social norms. The model shows in an easily accessible manner how personal and functional income inequality can potentially have contrary...
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With US economy data we suggest that there exists a causal relationship between negative shocks in capital productivity and positive shocks in the profit share. We argue that, faced with a capital productivity decrease, the US firm sector politically pushes wages down in order to maximize the...
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We quantify the fiscal multipliers in response to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. We extend the benchmark Smets-Wouters (Smets and Wouters, 2007) New Keynesian model, allowing for credit-constrained households, the zero lower bound, government capital and distortionary...
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