This paper analyzes the interaction between financial and real variables in different time frames and monetary regimes. Firms finance investment through retained earnings, new issues, or bank loans, and households' desired portfolio of financial assets is related to current income flows. The...

This paper examines the dynamic implications of a shift in relative prices between traded and nontraded goods. In accordance with empirical evidence the authors allow for sluggish wage adjustment and increasing returns to scale in the traded goods sector. The presence of increasing returns to...

Human capital theory has been criticized for using an ordinal variable (human capital) as if it were cardinal (D. Leslie, 1995). It is shown in this note that this particular criticism is unwarranted: the use of human capital in the models discussed by Leslie satisfies Leslie's own criterion for...

This paper analyses the use of aggregate demand policies to ensure full- employment growth in the long run. The results support Victoria Chick's warning in Macroeconomics after Keynes against the misapplication of short-run Keynesian policy prescriptions to long-run problems.

This paper examines Steindl’s original 1952 model and relates it to subsequent stagnationist models. The model is then extended by introducing endogenous changes in the markup and a reformulation of the investment function. These extensions address weaknesses of the simpler models, find...

New information and communication technologies, we argue, have been 'power-biased': in many industries they have allowed firms to monitor workers more closely, thus reducing the power of these workers. An efficiency wage model shows that 'power-biased technical change' in this sense may generate...

Framing effects and bounded rationality imply that election campaigns may be an important determinant of election outcomes. This paper uses a two-party setting and simple game theoretic models to analyse the strategic interaction between the parties’ campaign decisions. Alternations of power...

New information and communication technologies, we argue, have been 'power-biased': they have allowed firms to monitor low-skill workers more closely, thus reducing the power of these workers. An efficiency wage model shows that 'power-biased technical change' in this sense may generate rising...

The KMG growth dynamics in Chiarella and Flaschel (2000) assume that wages, prices and quantities adjust sluggishly to disequilibria in labor and goods markets. This paper modifies the KMG model by introducing Steindlian features of capital accumulation and income distribution. The resulting...

This paper considers some methodological aspects of Joan Robinson's contribution to post-Keynesian growth theory. Joan Robinson's criticisms of equilibrium analysis, of the conflation of logical and historical time and of the uses (and misuses) of mathematical formalisation are scathing. But...