Arbeitspapier

Increasing inequality and financial instability

Rising inequality affects the composition of asset demands as well as aggregate demand. The poor have few financial assets and their portfolio is skewed towards fixed-income assets. The rich, by contrast, hold a large proportion of their wealth in stocks. Thus, an increase in inequality tends to raise the demand for stocks. This generates capital gains, and these gains can fuel a bubble, as desired portfolios shift further towards stocks.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper ; No. 2011-20

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
General Aggregative Models: Marxian; Sraffian; Kaleckian
Macroeconomics: Consumption; Saving; Wealth
Thema
earnings inequality
portfolio composition
financial instability

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Skott, Peter
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
University of Massachusetts, Department of Economics
(wo)
Amherst, MA
(wann)
2011

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Skott, Peter
  • University of Massachusetts, Department of Economics

Entstanden

  • 2011

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