Kim, Yun; Isaac, Alan - Department of Economics, Trinity College - 2011
include consumer as well as corporate debt in a stock-flow consistent neo-Kaleckian growth model and explore the macrodynamic … ramifications. We find that consumer credit conditions influence effective demand, the profit rate, and economic growth. The … results of simpler models. For example, we find that a surge in animal spirits is good for steady-state growth. We show that …