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Structural VAR analysis of debt, capital accumulation, and income distribution in the Japanese economy: a Post Keynesian perspective

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This paper investigates the dynamic relationships among income distribution, debt ratio, and capital accumulation in the Japanese economy post 1990s. The paper identifies the contemporaneous linkages and investigates the dynamic relationships among the three variables in the vector autoregression (VAR) model on the basis of the Post Keynesian model. The accumulated impulse response functions of the structural VAR indicate that although profit share sustains capital accumulation, a high debt ratio restrains it. In other words, the income distribution-capital accumulation pattern of the Japanese economy over the past 20 years has been a profit-led one, and the debt-capital accumulation pattern over the same period has been a debt-burdened one.

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  • Hiroshi Nishi, 2012. "Structural VAR analysis of debt, capital accumulation, and income distribution in the Japanese economy: a Post Keynesian perspective," Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 34(4), pages 685-712.
    • Handle: RePEc:mes:postke:v:34:y:2012:i:4:p:685-712
    DOI: 10.2753/PKE0160-3477340405
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    1. Bruno Jetin & Ozan Ekin Kurt, 2016. "Functional income distribution and growth in Thailand: A post Keynesian econometric analysis," Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 39(3), pages 334-360, July.
    2. Engelbert Stockhammer & Rafael Wildauer, 2016. "Debt-driven growth? Wealth, distribution and demand in OECD countries," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 40(6), pages 1609-1634.
    3. Kenshiro Ninomiya & Masaaki Tokuda, 2021. "Structural change and financial instability in the US economy," Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review, Springer, vol. 18(1), pages 205-226, April.
    4. Hiroshi Nishi, 2014. "Varieties of economic growth regimes, types of macroeconomic policies and policy regimes: a post-Keynesian analysis," Chapters, in: Hideko Magara (ed.), Economic Crises and Policy Regimes, chapter 5, pages 101-123, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    5. Engelbert Stockhammer, 2015. "Wage-led versus profit-led demand: What have we learned? A Kalecki-Minsky view," Working Papers PKWP1512, Post Keynesian Economics Society (PKES).
    6. Hiroshi Nishi, 2012. "On the Short-run Relationship between the Income Distribution- and Finance-Growth Regimes," Discussion papers e-12-001, Graduate School of Economics Project Center, Kyoto University.
    7. Folorunsho M. Ajide & James T. Dada, 2023. "Poverty, entrepreneurship, and economic growth in Africa," Poverty & Public Policy, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 15(2), pages 199-226, June.
    8. Kenshiro Ninomiya, 2017. "Financial Structure and Instability in an Open Economy," Discussion Papers CRR Discussion Paper Series B: Financial 16, Shiga University, Faculty of Economics,Center for Risk Research.

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