Macroeconomics of inequality & instability - Inequality, imbalances and the crisis

Till van Treeck
IMK, 2015
Level: expert
Perspective: Post-Keynesian Economics
Topic: inequality
Format: Lecture
Duration: 00:58:52
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLNO-AkUk4w&list=PLRIU-ZP0fg52GV8L9kc_o1FxWXgvAVo83&index=13

In this keynote lecture during the conference „The Spectre of Stagnation? Europe in the World Economy“, Till van Treek presents research on how changes in income distribution lead to macroeconomic instability and crisis, focusing on currents accounts. Treek presents the relative income hypothesis in contrast to other mainstream and Post-Keynesian explanations. The relative income hypothesis proposes that aggregate demand increases and savings decrease with rising personal income inequality due to upward looking status comparison – but effects depend on the quantile where income inequality increases. Treek points to the importance of accounting for both income and functional income distribution and underlines his arguments with data comparing different pattern in Germany and the U.S.

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Tags: aggregate demand | crisis | debt | expenditure cascade | Gini coefficient | imbalances | income distribution | inequality | positional goods | rational expectations | relative income hypothesis | Ricardian equivalence | savings
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