Francisco J. Buera Yongseok Shin () (Economics University of Wisconsin)
Abstract
How do movements in the distribution of income and wealth affect the macroeconomy? We create two economies where the only difference between them lies in the initial distribution of economic resources and the degree of frictions in financial markets. Generally, these economies eventually reach the same (or very similar) stationary equilibria in terms of aggregate variables--e.g. capital stock and output. In this sense, financial frictions and wealth distribution have little macroeconomic impact on the stationary equilibria. Here we map out the entire transition dynamics and answer the following questions: (i) Do financial frictions slow down the economy's progression toward the stationary equilibria? (ii) Does inequality affect the speed of convergence to the stationary equilibria? and (iii) If economic resources are initially misallocated (e.g. entrepreneurs not having any resources), is the speed of convergence to the stationary equilibria significantly lower? We find that financial frictions and initial wealth distribution have significant and persistent effects on the transitional dynamics of the aggregate variables
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Paper provided by Society for Economic Dynamics in its series 2006 Meeting Papers with number
792.
Length: Date of creation: 03 Dec 2006 Date of revision: Handle: RePEc:red:sed006:792
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