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This paper discusses the role that finance plays in promoting the capital development of the economy, with particular … emphasis on the current situation of the United States and the United Kingdom. We define both "finance" and "capital … the United States. To a large degree, this was because finance, instead of financing the capital development of the …
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integrated analysis of money, finance and macroeconomics and its application to changing institutional and historical …
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A growing body of recent macroeconomic evidence suggests that volatility is detrimental to economic growth. The channels through which volatility affects growth, however, are less clear; substantive evidence based on disaggregate data is almost non-existent. This paper offers a framework in...
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This paper begins by defining, and distinguishing between, money and finance, and addresses alternative ways of … financing spending. We next examine the role played by financial institutions (e.g., banks) in the provision of finance. The … role of government as both regulator of private institutions and provider of finance is also discussed, and related topics …
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This paper contrasts the orthodox approach with an alternative view on finance, saving, deficits, and liquidity. The … deficit that supplies the net dollar saving to the nongovernment sector. Further, saving is never a source of finance; rather …, private lending creates bank deposits to finance spending that generates income. Some of this income can be saved, so the …
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Given the economy's complex behavior and sudden transitions as evidenced in the 2007-08 crisis, agent-based models are widely considered a promising alternative to current macroeconomic practice dominated by DSGE models. Their failure is commonly interpreted as a failure to incorporate...
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Wars have been the main forces shaping the international trading system in the twentieth century. The early years of the twentieth century were dominated by the international gold standard. But as a result of World War I, this system was replaced by the troubled gold exchange standards of the...
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finance should not matter much, the alternative tradition - from Veblen and Keynes to Galbraith and Minsky - provides the … basis for developing an approach that puts money and finance front and center. Including the theory of social costs also … generates policy recommendations more appropriate to an economy in which finance matters. …
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According to the traditional view held in finance returns of assets are determined by complete rationality of decision …
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The paper examines a game-theoretic evolutionary model of anasset market with endogenous equilibrium asset prices. Assetspay dividends that are partially consumed and partially rein-vested. The investors use general, adaptive strategies (portfo-lio rules), distributing their wealth between...
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