The conventional wisdom about Keynes's Principle of Effective Demand is that it states something about quantities. It is widely held that the Principle determines the levels of output and employment in a world not governed by Say's Law. This paper argues that the Principle of Effective Demand...

The American Post Keynesians - those who attach importance to the Big P and the absence of a dash between post and Keynesian - claim to be Keynes's most literal interpreters, or the truest Keynesians (HOLT ET AL., 1998, p. 17). This paper compares the Post Keynesian interpretation of the...

I investigate whether demand growth and productivity growth in Switzerland have benefitted from the wage moderation that set in at the beginning of the 1990s in this country. The results suggest that the Swiss demand regime is profit-led while the productivity regime is wage-led. This means on...

Okun's Law postulates a stable relationship between quarterly output growth and changes in (un)employment. This proposition has so far been tested with macroeconomic data at the highest level of aggregation. The paper goes beyond that in extending the analysis to industry data from Switzerland,...

The paper combines Baumol's model of structural change with a model of aggregate demand growth in the Keynesian-Kaleckian tradition to predict the dynamics of aggregate employment. The model for the demand regime is estimated with - and Baumol's model for the productivity regime is calibrated on...

The Bhaduri-Marglin model is a post-Kaleckian model that allows for studying the impact of functional income distribution on the growth in demand. Over recent years, a number of empirical studies based on this model have aimed at determining whether a redistribution towards profits harms or...

Following an unprecedented contraction in GDP, the German economy returns to expansion. Growth will be modest in 2010, however, as the forces of the recovery are not yet stable. This is the key result of the Autumn outlook of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW). DIW expects...

Deutschland ist in der Rezession. Zentrale Ursache dafür ist die schwache Entwicklung der Weltwirtschaft. Die konjunkturelle Abkühlung wurde durch die Krise auf den Finanzmärkten erheblich verstärkt. Trotz massiver staatlicher Gegenmaßnahmen ist die Finanzkrise noch nicht ausgestanden. Sehr...

Das DIW Berlin rechnet zum Jahresende mit einer Stabilisierung der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung. Voraussetzung für eine konjunkturelle Stabilisierung ist jedoch eine Rückkehr des Vertrauens in die Finanzmärkte: Hierfür sind strukturelle Reformen und eine wirksame Regulierung des...

Wenngleich sich die Nebel etwas gelichtet haben, ist doch die Sicht auf die weitere wirtschaftliche Entwicklung alles andere als klar. So schlummern im Finanzsektor aufgrund fauler "Wert"papiere noch Risiken in unbekannter Höhe, die Dank staatlich zugelassener Bilanzkosmetik noch nicht die...