Essays on the macroeconomic effects of inequality
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation explores the aggregate allocational effects of different forms of economic inequality. Its three chapters study how an uneven distribution of production factors and financial resources, coupled with different forms of bureaucratic hurdles to the development of business ideas, financial constraints, or credit shocks, can affect the distribution and productivity of firms, the composition of the demand for goods and services, or the creation of valuable worker-firm matches in an economy. Even though it becomes clear throughout the dissertation that eliminating as many frictions in the firm-creation process, putting in place different redistribution policies, and alleviating financial frictions in an economy all have great effects on the aggregate economy that were not completely understood in previous theories, the welfare effects of such policies remain a subject for study in future work.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | González-Torres Fernández, Guzmán |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Economics. |
| Primary advisor | Amador, Manuel E |
| Primary advisor | Kurlat, Pablo |
| Thesis advisor | Amador, Manuel E |
| Thesis advisor | Kurlat, Pablo |
| Thesis advisor | Klenow, Peter J |
| Advisor | Klenow, Peter J |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Guzmán González-Torres Fernández. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Economics. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2015. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2015 by Guzman Gonzalez-Torres Fernandez
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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