Recent papers and selected older articles

 

A full list of publications can be found on the cv.

 

 

Endogenous cycles


Cyclical Patterns of Employment, Wage Inequality, and the Functional Distribution of Income 

With Adam Aboobaker. Political Economy Quarterly, Volume 4 Issue 1, March 2025, pp. 161-195 (0pen access), (WP version: PKES Working Paper 2512)


Endogenous business cycles and economic policy

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 220, 2023, 61-82. (open access)

 

Growth cycles in mature and dual economies

Revista Práticas de Administração Pública, v. 5 n. 3, 2021

 

Growth cycles with or without price flexibility

Published with minor revisions in Review of Keynesian Economics, 2015, 3(3), pp. 374-386.

 

Cyclical patterns of employment, utilization and profitability

With Ben Zipperer. Published (with minor revisions) in Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 2011, 44 (1), pp. 25-58.

 

Business cycles

Published with minor revisions in J.E. King (ed.) The Elgar Companion to Post Keynesian Economics. Elgar 2012.

 

Effective Demand, Class Struggle and Cyclical Growth

International Economic Review, February 1989, pp. 231-247

 

 

Wage formation, unemployment and inflation


Conflict inflation: Keynesian path dependency or Marxian cumulation?

Metroeconomica, 76(3), pp. 421-438, https://doi.org/10.1111/meca.12490 (WP version: PKES Working Paper 2406)


 Phillips curves, behavioral economics and post-Keynesian macroeconomics

In Jesper Jespersen and Finn Olesen (eds) Post-Keynesian Economics for the future: Sustainability, Stock-Flow Consistent modelling and Macroeconomic Theory and Methodology, Elgar, 2024.

 

Sources of inflation and the effects of balanced budgets and inflation targeting in developing economies

With Guilherme Klein Martins. Published with minor revisions in Industrial and Corporate Change, 30(2), 2021 pp. 409-444. doi: 10.1093/icc/dtab006

   

Fairness as a Source of Hysteresis in Employment and Relative Wages.

Published (with minor revisions) in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol 57, 2005, pp. 305-331.

 

Stagflationary Consequences of `Prudent' Monetary Policy in a Unionized Economy

Oxford Economic Papers, 49, 1997, pp. 609-622

 

 

Earnings inequality and power biased technological change

 

Labor market reforms and wage inequality in Korea

With Hyeon-Kyeong Kim. Metroeconomica, Volume 67(2), 2016, pp. 313–333.

 

Power, luck and ideology - technological and institutional parameters of the agency problem for CEOs

With Frederick Guy. Abbreviated version published in Review of Radical Political Economics, 2013, 45(3), pp. 323-332.

 

Employment and Distribution Effects of the Minimum Wage

With Fabian Slonimczyk. Published (with minor revisions) in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 2012, Vol. 84 (1), pp. 245– 264.

 

Information and communications technologies, coordination and control, and the distribution of income

With Fred Guy. Published (with minor revisions) in Journal of Income Distribution, 2008, 17 (3-4), pp. 71-92.

 

Power, productivity and profits

With Fred Guy. In M. Braham and F. Steffen (eds) Dimensions of Power: Concepts, Models, and Applications, Springer Verlag, 2008, pp. 385-404.

 

A Model of Power-Biased Technological Change

With Fred Guy. Short version published in Economics Letters, 2007, Vol. 95, No. 1, pp. 124-131.

 

Wage Inequality and Overeducation in a Model with Efficiency Wages

Published (with minor revisions) in Canadian Journal of Economics, 2006, vol. 39 (1), pp. 94-123.

 

 

Public debt, functional finance and secular stagnation

 

Functional finance and intergenerational distribution in a Keynesian OLG model

With Soon Ryoo. Published with minor revisions in Review of Keynesian Economics, 5(1), 2017, pp. 112-134.

 

Fiscal and monetary policy rules in an unstable economy

With Soon Ryoo. Revised version published in Metroeconomica, 68:3, 2017, pp. 500–548

 

Aggregate demand, functional finance and secular stagnation

European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies, Vol. 13( 2), 2016, pp. 172–188 (open access).

 

Public debt in an OLG model with imperfect competition: long-run effects of austerity programs and changes in the growth rate

With Soon Ryoo. Published with minor revisions in BE Press Journal of Macroeconomics, 2014, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 533-552.

 

Public debt and full employment in a stock-flow consistent model of a corporate economy

With Soon Ryoo. Revised version in Journal of Post Keynesian Economics. 2013, Vol 35(4), pp. 511-527.

 

 

Economic development

 

Sources of inflation and the effects of balanced budgets and inflation targeting in developing economies

With Guilherme Klein Martins. Industrial and Corporate Change, 30(2), 2021 pp. 409-444. doi: 10.1093/icc/dtab006

 

Fiscal policy and structural transformation in developing economies

Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 56, 2021, pp. 129-140.

 

Credit constraints and economic growth in a dual economy

With Leopoldo Gomez-Ramirez. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 45. 2018, pp. 64-76.

 

The Real Exchange Rate and Economic Development

With Arslan Razmi and Martin Rapetti. Published (with minor revisions) in Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 23 (2012) 151-169.

 

The Real Exchange Rate and Economic Growth: Are Developing Countries Different?

With Martin Rapetti and Arslan Razmi. Published (with minor revisions) in International Review of Applied Economics, 2012, Vol. 26, No. 6, November, pp. 735–753

 

Uneven Developent and the Liberalization of Trade and Capital Flows: the Case of Mexico

With Mehrene Larudee. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 22, 1998, pp. 277-95

 

Dynamic Effects of Trade Liberalization and Currency Overvaluation under Conditions of Increasing Returns

With J. Ros. Manchester School, 66 (4), 1998, pp. 466-89

 

The Big Push in a Open Economy with Non-Tradable Inputs

With J. Ros. Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 20, 1, 1997, pp. 149-162

 

 

Post-Keynesian growth theory


Models of growth, instability and cycles: Harrod, Kalecki and the supermuliplier 

In Mark Setterfield (ed.) Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Growth, 2nd edition. Elgar, forthcoming.


Economic growth in dual and mature economies: revisiting the Pasinetti and neo-Pasinetti theorems

In Duncan Foley and Daniele Tavani (eds) Growth, Distribution, and Effective Demand -- Classical and Post-Keynesian Perspectives, Elgar, forthcoming.

 

Supermultipliers, `endogenous autonomous demand' and functional finance

With Jose Luiz da Costa Oreiro and Julio Fernando Costa Santos. Metroeconomica, 73(1), 2022, pp. 220-244 (open access)

 

Autonomous demand, instability and the supply side

Metroeconomica, 70(2), 2019, pp. 233-246.

 

Autonomous demand and the Harrodian criticisms of the Kaleckian model

Metroeconomica, 68(1), pp. 185–193, 2017.

 

Weaknesses of ‘wage-led growth

Review of Keynesian Economics, Vol. 5 No. 3, 2017, pp. 336–359

 

An empirical evaluation of three post Keynesian models

With Ben Zipperer. European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies, 2012, Vol.  9(2), pp. 277-308. (open access)

 

Theoretical and Empirical Shortcomings of the Kaleckian Investment Function

Revised version published in Metroeconomica, 2012, Vol. 63, pp. 109-138.

 

Growth, Instability and Cycles: Harrodian and Kaleckian Models of Accumulation and Income Distribution

Published (with minor revisions) in M. Setterfield (ed.) Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Growth, Edward Elgar, 2010.

 

Japanese growth and stagnation

With Takeshi Nakatani. Published with minor revisions in Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2007, Vo. 18, Iss. 3, pp. 306-332

 

Steindlian models of growth and stagnation

With P. Flaschel. Published (with minor revisions) in Metroeconomica, 2006, 57:3, pp. 303-338.

 

Growth and Stagnation in a Two-Sector Model: Kaldor's Mattioli Lectures

Cambridge Journal of Economics, 23, 1999, pp. 353-370.

 

Concentration, Competition and Distribution - a Critique of Theories of Monopoly Capital

With Paul Auerbach. International Review of Applied Economics, Vol. 2 no.1, 1988, pp. 42-61.

 

Effective Demand, Class Struggle and Cyclical Growth

International Economic Review, February 1989, pp. 231-247

 

 

Financial instability, stock-flow consistency and financialization

 

Asset market closure and the neo-Pasinetti theorem -- a comment

Review of Keynesian Economics, 11 No. 1, Spring 2023, pp. 105–108.


Increasing inequality and financial instability

Published (with minor revisions) in Review of Radical Political Economics. 45 (4), December 2013, pp. 474 - 482.

 

Financialization in Kaleckian Economies With and Without Labor Constraints

With Soon Ryoo. European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies, 2008 (open access)

 

Macroeconomic implications of financialization

With Soon Ryoo. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2008, 32 (6), pp.827-862.

 

On the Modelling of Systemic Financial Fragility

In A.K. Dutt (ed.) New Directions in Analytical Political Economy, Edward Elgar, 1994, pp. 49-76.

 

Finance, Saving and Accumulation

Cambridge Journal of Economics, September 1988, pp. 339-354

 

On the `Kaldorian' Saving Function

Kyklos, 4/1981, pp. 563-581.


 

Miscellaneous

 

Visions of the future – a socialist departure from gloom?

With Paul Auerbach. PSL Quarterly Review, 74 (298), 2021, pp. 155-177.

 

Pluralism, the Lucas critique, and the integration of macroeconomics and microeconomics

Revised version in Review of Political Economy, 2014, 26 (4), pp. 503-515.

 

Distributional biases in the analysis of climate change

With Leila Davis. Published (with minor revisons) in Ecological Economics, 2013, 85, pp. 188–197

 

Election Campaigns, Agenda Setting and Electoral Outcomes

With M. Holler. Published (with minor revisions) in Public Choice, 2005, pp. 215-228.

 

Economic Explanation, Ordinality and the Adequacy of Analytic Specification

With D. Katzner. Published (with minor revisions) in Journal of Economic Methodology, 2004, pp. 437-453.


Paradoxical Effects of Drug Policy in a Model with Imperfect Competition and Switching Costs

With G.T. Jepsen. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 48 (4), 2002, pp. 335-354.

 

A Rational-Voter Explanation of the Cost of Ruling

With M. Paldam. Public Choice, 83, 1995, pp. 159-172.