Financialization and demand regimes in advanced economies

Engelbert Stockhammer and Karsten Kohler

No PKWP1911, Working Papers from Post Keynesian Economics Society (PKES)

Abstract: In this article, we analyze the implications of financialization for domestic demand formation by linking the concept of financialization to the post-Keynesian analysis of demand regimes. We examine how the financialization of households in advanced economies gave rise to distinct but interdependent demand regimes. In the Anglo-Saxon and southern European countries, financialization in the form of property price inflation and rising household debt contributed to the development of a debt-driven demand regime with large current account deficits. Economic development in eastern Europe was shaped by catching-up through foreign direct investment from northern Europe and accompanied by worsening current account positions. Northern Europe, in contrast, relied on an export-driven demand regime with a weaker role for financialization. The export-driven demand regime relies on the financialization of southern Europe and the Anglo-Saxon countries, which helped create export demand for northern Europe. We argue that this constellation of demand regimes gives rise to divergent economic performance and macroeconomic instability. While with deleveraging the growth effects of the debt-driven model have gone into reverse, the fundamental configuration has not changed since the crisis.

Keywords: Financialization; demand regimes; post-Keynesian economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E02 E60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25
Date: 2019-04
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