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The study develops a standard representative-agents’ New Keynesian model for macroeconomic analysis in a developing African economy. Using Bayesian estimation techniques and Ghanaian dataset, the core objective of the paper is to determine the best suited monetary policy rule for Ghana. After...
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their consumption choices. This underlies differences in consumers’ rational inattention to price changes across different …
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and Steven Marglin in the early 1990s, by incorporating relative consumption concerns. Specifically, it integrates the … Veblenian concept of conspicuous consumption into a typical Bhaduri-Marglin model by assuming that relative consumption concerns … in workers' income is distributed unevenly, efforts to "keep up with the Joneses" may increase consumption and, hence …
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events within a Minsky-Veblen Cycle. To illustrate this claim we introduce conspicuous consumption concerns, as described by … equality leads to a corresponding increase in debt-financed consumption demand. Here Minskyian dynamics come into play …-financed consumption boom. As the solvency of households decreases and interest rates move up, banks reduce lending, triggering household …
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Consumption theory has always been a neglected field in Post Keynesian economics, whereas it is at the center of New … questions, still remain. Building on insights from Economic Sociology and Behavioral Economics, the importance for consumption …
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textual analysis as the microeconomic foundations for Keynes’s Consumption Theory; the second goal is to demonstrate the … possibility of grounding a Keynesian-type aggregate consumption function on the basis of (some of) the principles underlying …
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-depressing effects of raising inequality via debt and wealth-based consumption. Likewise, it is argued that decreasing personal income …
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. In order to increase investment sufficiently to achieve net zero goals, constraints on consumption may be required. Such …
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After the publication of Keynes' "General Theory," economics was frequently described as schizophrenia: (neo-) classical at the micro-level, but Keynesian at the macro-level. In actuality, Keynes' revolution was, to a substantial part, based on the behavioral micro-foundations of the world we...
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In this paper the main developments in post-Keynesian macroeconomics since the mid-1990s will be reviewed. For this purpose the main differences between heterodox economics in general, including post-Keynesian economics, and orthodox economics will be reiterated and an overview over the strands...
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