Konferenzbeitrag

Income redistribution, consumer credit, and keeping up with the Riches

In this study, the relation between consumer credit and real economic activity during the Great Moderation is studied in a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model. Our model economy is populated by two different household types. Investors, who hold the economy's capital stock, own the firms and supply credit, and workers, who supply labor and demand credit to finance consumption. Furthermore, workers seek to minimize the difference between investors' and their own consumption level. Qualitatively, an income redistribution from labor to capital leads to consumer credit dynamics that are in line with the data. As a validation exercise, we simulate a three-shock version of the model and find that our theoretical set-up is able to reproduce important business cycle correlations.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2015: Ökonomische Entwicklung - Theorie und Politik - Session: Banking, credit and the cycle ; No. E03-V1

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Macroeconomics: Consumption; Saving; Wealth
Business Fluctuations; Cycles
Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Krause, Christopher
Klein, Mathias
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wann)
2015

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Konferenzbeitrag

Beteiligte

  • Krause, Christopher
  • Klein, Mathias

Entstanden

  • 2015

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