The effects of income distribution and fiscal policy on aggregate demand, investment and the budget balance: the case of Europe

This paper develops a multi-country post-Kaleckian model that incorporates the role of the government. One key novelty of the model is that it integrates cross-country effects of changes in both income distribution and fiscal policy. The model is used to estimate econometrically the effects of incom...

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Published in:Cambridge journal of economics 2020-11, Vol.44 (6), p.1221-1243
Main Authors: Obst, Thomas, Onaran, Özlem, Nikolaidi, Maria
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Progressivism
Taxation
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