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assets for the capital gain (asset redistribution). The former increases total income and employment, while the latter alters … phenomenon of rising inequality and social harm over the course of a recession. As asset redistribution is predominantly a … privilege of the rich, an increase in inequality encourages more income redistribution, thus further exacerbating recessions …
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matching frictions with redistributive productivity shocks – which account for fluctuations in the distribution of income …
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The recent global crisis has sparked interest in the relationship between income inequality, credit booms, and financial crises. Rajan (2010) and Kumhof and Rancière (2011) propose that rising inequality led to a credit boom and eventually to a financial crisis in the US in the first decade of...
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. In particular, the existence of fluctuations is related to the degree of heterogeneity in labor and in capital endowments …
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We develop a theoretical model with labor market frictions, incomplete financial markets and with households which have two members. Households face unemployment risks but their members adjust their labor supplies to insure against unemployment. We use the model to explain the cyclical...
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This paper examines the effects of expansionary technology shocks (shocks that increase labor productivity and factor inputs) as opposed to contractionary technology shocks (shocks that increase labor productivity, but decrease factor inputs). We estimate these two shocks jointly based on a...
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Durch die anstehende Revision der Volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnungen rechnet sich auch Deutschland reicher: Das Bruttoinlandsprodukt wird merklich höher ausfallen, wie schon bei den früheren Revisionen, und auch das Anlagevermögen nimmt rechnerisch deutlich zu. Bedeutsam hierfür ist die...
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The reaction of hours worked to technology shocks represents a key controversy between RBC and New Keynesian explanations of the business cycle. It sparked a large empirical literature with contrasting results. We demonstrate that, with a more general and data coherent supply and production...
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growth path as well as stable limit cycles via Hopf bifurcations. Both predictions are broadly in line with the empirical …
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its definition, the properties of short-run fluctuations, medium-run swings, and long-run stochastic trends of the labor …
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