Der Gebäudesektor stellt einen Schlüsselsektor für eine erfolgreiche Dekarbonisierung Deutschlands dar und bildet damit eine wesentliche Schnittstelle zur Erreichung der gesamtgesellschaftlichen Klimaziele. Vor diesem Hintergrund versucht dieser Policy Brief, den nötigen Sanierungsbedarf zur...

Der Gebäudesektor stellt einen Schlüsselsektor für eine erfolgreiche Dekarbonisierung Deutschlands dar und bildet damit eine wesentliche Schnittstelle zur Erreichung der gesamtgesellschaftlichen Klimaziele. Vor diesem Hintergrund versucht dieser Policy Brief, den nötigen Sanierungsbedarf zur...

We use an agent-based stock-flow consistent model of a closed economy without technological change that considers different classes of households, status consumption and a Minskyan banking sector to analyze the relationship between rising saving rates, the accumulation and distribution of...

The influential position of multinational corporations in the global economy of the twenty-first century is a particularly controversial and timely subject. This paper aims to improve our understanding of this phenomenon by focusing on one particular aspect of it: corporate power. To this end,...

This paper reflects on the development leading to the recent crisis and interprets this development as a series of events within a Minsky-Veblen Cycle. To illustrate this claim we introduce conspicuous consumption concerns, as described by Veblen, into a stock flow consistent Post Keynesian...

This paper extends the theoretical concept of wage-led and profit-led demand regimes, first introduced by Amit Bhaduri and Steven Marglin in the early 1990s, by incorporating relative consumption concerns. Specifically, it integrates the Veblenian concept of conspicuous consumption into a...

It is a well-known criticism that due to its exponential distribution, survey data on wealth is hardly reliable when it comes to analyzing the richest parts of society. This paper addresses this criticism using Austrian data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). In doing so...

Unfettered market forces tend to violate basic universal concepts like justice, dignity or fairness. Therefore we suggest moving to a new concept of markets, which we label 'civilized markets'. A civilized market tries to ensure that free entrepreneurship and open markets are eventually...

Der vorliegende Beitrag skizziert ueberblicksartig nationale und internationale Verteilungstendenzen im Kapitalismus und wirft einen kursorischen Blick auf die diesen Trends zugrunde liegenden Mechanismen. Sowohl auf der Ebene der Nationalstaaten als auch auf internationaler Ebene hat die...

This paper analyzes the determinants of the European Commission's NAIRU estimates for 14 European OECD countries during 1985-2012. The NAIRU is a poor proxy for 'structural unemployment': Labor market institutions - employment protection legislation, union density, tax wedge, minimum wages -...