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This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...
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The paper builds upon the Agent Based-Stock Flow Consistent model presented in Caiani et al. (2015) to analyze the relationship between income and wealth inequality and economic development. For this sake, the original model has been amended under three main dimensions: first, the households...
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We use consumption and balance sheet data disaggregated between the top 5% and the bottom 95% of US households by income to show that the bottom 95% went deeply into debt to mitigate the impact of their stagnant incomes on their consumption. We use micro data to calibrate an intrinsic Keynesian...
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We scrutinize Thomas Piketty's (2014) theory concerning the relationship between an economy's long-run growth rate, its … of Piketty's Second Fundamental Law of Capitalism does not hold. In line with Piketty's theory a smaller long-run growth …, both the economy's savings rate and its growth rate are endogenous variables whereas in Piketty's theory they are both …
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