Inequality, Leverage and Crises : The Case of Endogenous Default /

The paper studies how high household leverage and crises can arise as a result of changes in the income distribution. Empirically, the periods 1920-1929 and 1983-2008 both exhibited a large increase in the income share of high-income households, a large increase in debt leverage of the remainder, an...

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Autore principale: Kumhof, Michael
Altri autori: Ranciere, Romain, Winant, Pablo
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2013.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2013/249
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF

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