FINANCIAL CRISES AND THE ROLE OF ECONOMIC POLICY: A POST-KEYNESIAN APPROACH

The current paper aims primarily discussing the conducting of economic, monetary and fiscal policy, during a time of financial fragility through a macro dynamic model. Historical evidences show that in order to avoid periods of economical depression and enduring panics as happened during the Great D...

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Autores: Dezordi, Lucas Lautert, Curado, Marcelo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Repositorio:Análise Econômica (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/35288
Acceso en línea:https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/AnaliseEconomica/article/view/35288
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Financial fragility
Economic policy
Post Keynesian macroeconomics.
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Fragilidade financeira
Políticas econômicas
Macroeconomia pós-keynesiana.
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Sumario:The current paper aims primarily discussing the conducting of economic, monetary and fiscal policy, during a time of financial fragility through a macro dynamic model. Historical evidences show that in order to avoid periods of economical depression and enduring panics as happened during the Great Depression, the economical policy should be coordinated. The combination of low interest rate and the increase of public deficit is essential to stabilize the system. The proposed model starts from the macroeconomic Kaleckiana identity of profit determination and in addition, it uses the fundamental concepts of the post-Keynesian thoughts. The results indicate that the combination of interest rate drop and expansion of the public deficit is relevant to stabilize the system in periods of financial vulnerability of private companies. In case of collapse of the marginal capital efficiency as a consequence of depreciation of the state trust, dropping interests to a “liquidity trap” level, it becomes crucial to stabilize the model.