Essays in Macroeconomics and Financial Market Imperfections
Author | : Alexander Wulff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
ISBN-10 | : OCLC:1158513540 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Download or read book Essays in Macroeconomics and Financial Market Imperfections written by Alexander Wulff and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of four self-contained papers that deal with the implications of financial market imperfections and heterogeneity. The analysis mainly relates to the class of incomplete-markets models but covers different research topics. The first paper deals with the distributional effects of financial integration for developing countries. Based on a simple heterogeneous-agent approach, it is shown that capital owners experience large welfare losses while only workers moderately gain due to higher wages. The large welfare losses for capital owners contrast with the small average welfare gains from representative-agent economies and indicate that a strong opposition against capital market opening has to be expected. The second paper considers the puzzling observation of capital flows from poor to rich countries and the accompanying changes in domestic economic development. Motivated by the mixed results from the literature, we employ an incomplete-markets model with different types of idiosyncratic risk and borrowing...