Arbeitspapier

Finance-dominated capitalism, re-distribution, household debt and financial fragility in a Kaleckian distribution and growth model

In a Kaleckian distribution and growth model with workers' debt we examine the short- and long-run effects of three stylized facts of 'finance-dominated capitalism': a fall in animal spirits of the firm sector with respect to real investment in capital stock, re-distribution of income at the expense of the wage share, and increasing lending of rentiers to workers for consumption purposes. In particular, we specify the conditions for long-run stability of the workers' debt-capital ratio. We thus identify the threshold for this ratio to turn unstable causing increasing financial fragility and finally financial crisis due to systemic stock-flow or stock-stock dynamics.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Working Paper ; No. 11/2011

Classification
Wirtschaft
General Aggregative Models: Keynes; Keynesian; Post-Keynesian
Macroeconomics: Consumption; Saving; Wealth
Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity
Aggregate Factor Income Distribution
One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models
Subject
Finance-dominated capitalism
distribution
household debt
financial fragility
growth
Kaleckian model

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Hein, Eckhard
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin, Institute for International Political Economy (IPE)
(where)
Berlin
(when)
2011

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  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Hein, Eckhard
  • Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin, Institute for International Political Economy (IPE)

Time of origin

  • 2011

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