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An Empirical Evaluation Of Three Post Keynesian Models, Peter Skott, Ben Zipperer
An Empirical Evaluation Of Three Post Keynesian Models, Peter Skott, Ben Zipperer
Economics Department Working Paper Series
Structuralist and post Keynesian models differ in their assumptions about firms’ investment behavior and pricing/output decisions. This paper compares three benchmark models: Kaleckian, Robinsonian and Kaldorian. We analyze the implications of these models for the steady growth path and the cyclical properties of the economy, and evaluate the consistency of the theoretical predictions with empirical evidence for the US. Our regression results and the stylized cyclical pattern of key variables are consistent with the Kaldorian model. The Kaleckian investment function and the Robinsonian pricing behavior find no support in the data.
A Classical-Marxian Model Of Education, Growth And Distribution, Amitava Krishna Dutt, Roberto Veneziani
A Classical-Marxian Model Of Education, Growth And Distribution, Amitava Krishna Dutt, Roberto Veneziani
Economics Department Working Paper Series
This paper develops a classical-Marxian macroeconomic model to examine the growth and distributional consequences of education. First, the role of education in skill formation is considered and it is shown that an expansion in education will promote growth and have beneficial distributional effects within the working class, but it will redistribute income from workers to capitalists. Second, the model is extended analyze the broader political economic consequences of education on class relations and class conflict. The model suggests the importance of a progressive type of education rather than one which weakens the power workers, for it allows for equitable growth …
Cyclical Patterns Of Employment, Utilization And Profitability, Ben Zipperer, Peter Skott
Cyclical Patterns Of Employment, Utilization And Profitability, Ben Zipperer, Peter Skott
Economics Department Working Paper Series
The interaction between income distribution, accumulation, employment and the utilization of capital is central to macroeconomic models in the `heterodox' tradition. This paper examines the stylized pattern of these variables using US data for the period after 1948. We look at the trends and cycles in individual time series and examine the bivariate cycical patterns among the variables.