A Stock-Flow Consistent Political Business Cycle: Kalecki’s 1943 Model Revisited

Authors

  • Eloy Fisher

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37387/ipc.v6i2.89

Keywords:

Economy, economic cycles, financial debt, fiscal policy, non-linear economy dynamics, economic growth

Abstract

This paper features a stock-flow consistent political business cycle model where the interplay between financial debt, income distribution and fiscal policy is politically mediated by the relative influence of workers and businesses over government policy and publicly provided goods. In countries where taxes are a politically costly alternative to generate fiscal revenue, debt finances fiscal expansionary activity to initially raise wages and increase output. However, institutional mechanisms keep such drivers in check, and prompt a stop-and-go cycle as Kalecki suggested in his landmark 1943 paper. We find that the push of labor interests against business stakeholders leads to nonlinear dynamics over debt and deficits and creates uncertainty over long-term growth path.

 

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Author Biography

Eloy Fisher

Investigador asociado, Universidad Santa María La Antigua (USMA), Apartado Postal 0819-08550, Panamá, República de Panamá.

Published

2018-08-01

How to Cite

Fisher, E. (2018). A Stock-Flow Consistent Political Business Cycle: Kalecki’s 1943 Model Revisited. Investigación Y Pensamiento Crítico, 6(2), 71–84. https://doi.org/10.37387/ipc.v6i2.89