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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kumhof, Michael
Other Authors: Ranciere, Romain, Winant, Pablo
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2013.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2013/249
Online Access:Full text available on IMF