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Changing dynamics and tail risks of aggregate demand and income distribution

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  • Jose Barrales-Ruiz

    (Center of Economics for Sustainable Development (CEDES), Faculty of Economics and Government, Universidad San Sebastian and Universidad Catolica de la Santısima Concepcion.)

  • Ivan Mendieta-Muñoz

    (Department of Economics, University of Utah)

Abstract

This paper examines the changes in the dynamic interactions between aggregate demand and income distribution in the USA. We focus on two periods that capture the relevant characteristics before and after contemporary neoliberal capitalism. We study the interactions between aggregate demand and income distribution in both periods using structural quantile vector autoregression models. This allows us to assess the informational content of the dynamic interactions at all parts of the relevant distributions, including the potential tail risks. The results show evidence of important reductions in the profit-led effect across the whole distribution of aggregate demand during neoliberalism; while profit squeeze dynamics have decreased at most parts of the distribution of income but have increased its downside risk, thus becoming more heterogeneous across the distribution of income. Notwithstanding the underlying transmission mechanisms have remained unaltered across the two periods, our results highlight that the interactions between aggregate demand and income distribution have become a more complex phenomenon to study since the mid-1980s.

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  • Jose Barrales-Ruiz & Ivan Mendieta-Muñoz, 2024. "Changing dynamics and tail risks of aggregate demand and income distribution," Working Papers 2414, New School for Social Research, Department of Economics.
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    Keywords

    Aggregate demand; income distribution; tail risks; quantile vector autoregression; neoliberalism;
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    JEL classification:

    • D33 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Factor Income Distribution
    • E11 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - Marxian; Sraffian; Kaleckian
    • E12 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - Keynes; Keynesian; Post-Keynesian; Modern Monetary Theory
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles

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