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stagnation. The reason is that automation suppresses wages, which are the only source of investment in the overlapping …
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This paper formalizes and quantifies the secular stagnation hypothesis, defined as a persistently low or negative …
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I present a model of secular stagnation with land and infinitely-lived agents with wealth preferences. Land is the … unless the central bank follows a deflationary policy. In contrast, secular stagnation emerges as the unique equilibrium of … effective in restoring full employment as stagnation is a real phenomenon. These conclusions hold if households require a risk …
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Four alarming stylized facts have recently emerged in the United States: (i) a decline in the labor share of income; (ii) a decline in labor productivity; (iii) an increase in the top 1% wealth share, and (iv) an increase in the capital-income ratio. In Capital in the XXI Century, Thomas...
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Demographic change and automation are two main structural trends shaping the macroeconomy in the next decades. We present a general equilibrium model with a tractable life-cycle structure that allows the investigation of the main transmission mechanisms by which demography and technology affect...
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decreasing in the next decades, a secular stagnation. As physical capital will be relatively abundant, this decrease of output …
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It is well known that rational bubbles can be sustained in balanced growth path of a deterministic economy when the return to capital r is equal to the growth rate g. When there is a lack of stores of value, bubbles can implement an efficient allocation. This paper considers a world where r...
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