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Working Paper No. 919
January 16, 2019
On the Design of Empirical Stock-Flow-Consistent Models
AbstractWhile the literature on theoretical macroeconomic models adopting the stock-flow-consistent (SFC) approach is flourishing, few contributions cover the methodology for building a SFC empirical model for a whole country. Most contributions simply try to feed national accounting data into a theoretical model inspired by Wynne Godley and Marc Lavoie (2007), albeit with different degrees of […]
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Working Paper No. 897
September 20, 2017
Quantitative Easing and Asset Bubbles in a Stock-flow Consistent Framework
AbstractEver since the Great Recession, central banks have supplemented their traditional policy tool of setting the short-term interest rate with massive buyouts of assets to extend lines of credit and jolt flagging demand. As with many new policies, there have been a range of reactions from economists, with some extolling quantitative easing’s expansionary virtues and […]
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Working Paper No. 891
May 24, 2017
Stock-flow Consistent Macroeconomic Models
AbstractThe stock-flow consistent (SFC) modeling approach, grounded in the pioneering work of Wynne Godley and James Tobin in the 1970s, has been adopted by a growing number of researchers in macroeconomics, especially after the publication of Godley and Lavoie (2007), which provided a general framework for the analysis of whole economic systems, and the recognition […]
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Strategic Analysis
April 14, 2017
The Trump Effect: Is This Time Different?
AbstractFrom a macroeconomic point of view, 2016 was an ordinary year in the post–Great Recession period. As in prior years, the conventional forecasts predicted that this would be the year the economy would finally escape from the “new normal” of secular stagnation. But just as in every previous year, the forecasts were confounded by the […]
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Strategic Analysis
March 07, 2016
Destabilizing an Unstable Economy
AbstractOur latest strategic analysis reveals that the US economy remains fragile because of three persistent structural issues: weak demand for US exports, fiscal conservatism, and a four-decade trend in rising income inequality. It also faces risks from stagnation in the economies of the United States’ trading partners, appreciation of the dollar, and a contraction in […]
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Working Paper No. 854
November 16, 2015
The Roads Not Taken
AbstractStandard presentations of stock-flow consistent modeling use specific Post Keynesian closures, even though a given stock-flow accounting structure supports various different economic dynamics. In this paper we separate the dynamic closure from the accounting constraints and cast the latter in the language of graph theory. The graph formulation provides (1) a representation of an economy […]
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Working Paper No. 851
October 28, 2015
Money Creation under Full-reserve Banking
AbstractThis paper presents a stock-flow consistent model+ of full-reserve banking. It is found that in a steady state, full-reserve banking can accommodate a zero-growth economy and provide both full employment and zero inflation. Furthermore, a money creation experiment is conducted with the model. An increase in central bank reserves translates into a two-thirds increase in […]
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Working Paper No. 844
July 29, 2015
A Nonbehavioral Theory of Saving
AbstractWe present a model where the saving rate of the household sector, especially households at the bottom of the income distribution, becomes the endogenous variable that adjusts in order for full employment to be maintained over time. An increase in income inequality and the current account deficit and a consolidation of the government budget lead […]
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Working Paper No. 839
June 01, 2015
Inside Money in a Kaldor-Kalecki-Steindl Fiscal Policy Model
AbstractWe hope to model financial fragility and money in a way that captures much of what is crucial in Hyman Minsky’s financial fragility hypothesis. This approach to modeling Minsky may be unique in the formal Minskyan literature. Namely, we adopt a model in which a psychological variable we call financial prudence (P) declines over time […]
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Strategic Analysis
May 14, 2015
Fiscal Austerity, Dollar Appreciation, and Maldistribution Will Derail the US Economy
AbstractIn this latest Strategic Analysis, the Institute’s Macro Modeling Team examines the current, anemic recovery of the US economy. The authors identify three structural obstacles—the weak performance of net exports, a prevailing fiscal conservatism, and high income inequality—that, in combination with continued household sector deleveraging, explain the recovery’s slow pace. Their baseline macro scenario shows […]
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Strategic Analysis
May 14, 2015
Η δημοσιονομική λιτότητα, η ανατίμηση του δολαρίου και τα προβλήματα κατανομής θα οδηγήσουν στον εκτροχιασμό της οικονομίας των ΗΠΑ
AbstractΣτην τελευταία στρατηγική ανάλυση, η ομάδα του μακροοικονομετρικού υποδείγματος του Ινστιτούτου εξετάζει την πρόσφατη, αναιμική ανάκαμψη της αμερικανικής οικονομίας. Οι συγγραφείς εντοπίζουν τρία διαρθρωτικά εμπόδια—την αδύναμη απόδοση των καθαρών εξαγωγών, την επικράτηση του δημοσιονομικού συντηρητισμού και τα υψηλά επίπεδα εισοδηματικής ανισότητας, τα οποία, σε συνδυασμό με τη συνεχιζόμενη απομόχλευση του τομέα των νοικοκυριών, εξηγούν τον […]
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Working Paper No. 801
May 21, 2014
The Political Economy of Shadow Banking
AbstractThis paper describes the political economy of shadow banking and how it relates to the dramatic institutional changes experienced by global capitalism over past 100 years. We suggest that the dynamics of shadow banking rest on the distributive tension between workers and firms. Politics wedge the operation of the shadow financial system as government policy […]
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Strategic Analysis
April 25, 2014
Αποτελεί η αυξανόμενη ανισότητα εμπόδιο στην οικονομική ανάκαμψη των ΗΠΑ;
AbstractΗ οικονομία των Ηνωμένων Πολιτειών αναπτύσσεται με μέτριο ρυθμό μετά από την επίσημη λήξη της Ύφεσης το 2009. Το έλλειμμα του προϋπολογισμού μειώνεται σταθερά, ο πληθωρισμός βρίσκεται υπό έλεγχο και το ποσοστό ανεργίας μειώθηκε από 9,8% στο 6,7% (τον Μάρτιο του 2014). Η περιοριστική δημοσιονομική πολιτική των τελευταίων τριών ετών έχει ασκήσει αρνητική επίδραση στη […]
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Strategic Analysis
April 25, 2014
Is Rising Inequality a Hindrance to the US Economic Recovery?
AbstractThe US economy has been expanding moderately since the official end of the Great Recession in 2009. The budget deficit has been steadily decreasing, inflation has remained in check, and the unemployment rate has fallen to 6.7 percent. The restrictive fiscal policy stance of the past three years has exerted a negative influence on aggregate […]
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Working Paper No. 783
January 10, 2014
Options for China in a Dollar Standard World
AbstractThis paper examines the fiscal and monetary policy options available to China as a sovereign currency-issuing nation operating in a dollar standard world. We first summarize a number of issues facing China, including the possibility of slower growth, global imbalances, and a number of domestic imbalances. We then analyze current monetary and fiscal policy formation […]
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Strategic Analysis
October 16, 2013
Η εδραίωση της ανάκαμψης: Προοπτικές και πολιτικές για τις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες
AbstractΣτην περίπτωση που επαληθευτούν οι προβλέψεις του Γραφείο Προϋπολογισμού του Κογκρέσου για τα κρατικά έσοδα και τις δαπάνες, η οικονομία των Ηνωμένων Πολιτειών δεν θα μπορέσει να αναπτυχθεί αρκετά γρήγορα προκειμένου να μειωθεί το ποσοστό της ανεργίας από σήμερα έως το 2016. Το έλλειμμα θα μειωθεί από τα σημερινά του επίπεδα, θέτοντας σε κίνδυνο τη […]
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Strategic Analysis
October 16, 2013
Rescuing the Recovery: Prospects and Policies for the United States
AbstractIf the Congressional Budget Office’s recent projections of government revenues and outlays come to pass, the United States will not grow fast enough to bring down the unemployment rate between now and 2016. The public sector deficit will decline from present levels, endangering the sustainability of the recovery. But as this new Strategic Analysis shows, […]
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Strategic Analysis
March 19, 2013
Ισχύει ακόμη η σύνδεση παραγωγής και δημιουργίας θέσεων εργασίας;
AbstractΚαθώς ετοιμάζεται να δημοσιευθεί η παρούσα έκθεση, η ανεργία παραμένει σε εξαιρετικά υψηλά επίπεδα ακόμη και σε σχέση με ανάλογα χρονικά σημεία από προηγούμενες περιόδους οικονομικής ανάκαμψης. Η οικονομία των ΗΠΑ φαίνεται να βιώνει για άλλη μια φορά μια «άνεργη» ανάκαμψη—αν και τα ποσοστά της ανεργίας μειώνονται σταθερά εδώ και χρόνια. Ταυτόχρονα, η δημοσιονομική λιτότητα […]
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Strategic Analysis
March 19, 2013
Is the Link between Output and Jobs Broken?
AbstractAs this report goes to press, the official unemployment rate remains tragically elevated, compared even to rates at similar points in previous recoveries. The US economy seems once again to be in a “jobless recovery,” though the unemployment rate has been steadily declining for years. At the same time, fiscal austerity has arrived, with the […]
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Working Paper No. 753
February 07, 2013
The Missing Macro Link
AbstractThis paper addresses the critique of the aggregational problem attached to the financial instability hypothesis of Hyman Minsky. The core of this critique is based on the Kaleckian analytical framework and, in very broad terms, states that the expenditure of ï¬rms for investment is at the same time a source of income for the ï¬rms […]
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Working Paper No. 745
January 03, 2013
Stock-flow Consistent Modeling through the Ages
AbstractThe aim of the paper is to provide an overview of the current stock-flow consistent (SFC) literature. Indeed, we feel the SFC approach has recently led to a blossoming literature, requiring a new summary after the work of Dos Santos (2006) and, above all, after the publication of the main reference work on the methodology, […]
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Working Paper No. 733
October 15, 2012
Innovation and Finance
AbstractSchumpeter, a century ago, argued that boom-and-bust cycles are intrinsically related to the functioning of a capitalistic economy. These cycles, inherent to the rise of innovation, are an unavoidable consequence of the way in which markets evolve and assimilate successive technological revolutions. Furthermore, Schumpeter’s analysis stressed the fundamental role played by finance in fostering innovation, […]
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Book Series
June 15, 2012
Contributions in Stock-flow Modeling: Essays in Honor of Wynne Godley
AbstractIn the 1970s, at a time of shock, controversy and uncertainty over the direction of monetary and fiscal policy, Wynne Godley and the Cambridge Department of Applied Economics rose to prominence, challenging the accepted Keynesian wisdom of the time. This collection of essays brings together eminent scholars who have been influenced by Godley’s enormous contribution […]
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Working Paper No. 722
May 11, 2012
Guaranteed Green Jobs
AbstractIn most economies, the potential of saving energy via insulation and more efficient uses of electricity is important. In order to reach the Kyoto Protocol objectives, it is urgent to develop policies that reduce the production of carbon dioxide in all sectors of the economy. This paper proposes an analysis of a green-jobs employer-of-last-resort (ELR) […]
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