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"Financialization," distribution, capital accumulation, and productivity growth in a post-Kaleckian model

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Focusing on the long-run effects of "financialization" and increasing shareholder power in a simple post-Kaleckian endogenous growth model, this paper examines the effects of increasing shareholder power on the demand regime, on the productivity regime, and on the overall regime of the model. Under special conditions, increasing shareholder power may have positive effects on capital accumulation and productivity growth and hence on potential growth of the economy. However, such a regime not only requires directly positive—or under certain conditions only weakly negative—effects of increasing shareholder power on the productivity regime but it also requires expansive—or under special circumstances only weakly contractive—effects of increasing shareholder power on capital accumulation via the demand regime of the economy. Both conditions have recently been questioned on empirical grounds, so that an overall long-run "contractive" regime seems to be the most likely outcome of "financialization," rising shareholder power, and pronounced shareholder value orientation.

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  • Eckhard Hein, 2012. ""Financialization," distribution, capital accumulation, and productivity growth in a post-Kaleckian model," Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 34(3), pages 475-496.
    • Handle: RePEc:mes:postke:v:34:y:2012:i:3:p:475-496
    DOI: 10.2753/PKE0160-3477340305
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    • E12 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - Keynes; Keynesian; Post-Keynesian; Modern Monetary Theory
    • E25 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Aggregate Factor Income Distribution
    • O41 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models
    • E22 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity
    • O16 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance
    • E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth

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