BaGBeM Research Workshop "Microeconomic Foundations for Classical and Post-Keynesian Economics"
Datum: 17.-18. Juni 2019
Referent: Daniele Tavani
Themen
- Classical growth and distribution, model closures, growth cycles
- Endogenous intensity of technical change
- Endogenous intensity of technical change
- Post-Keynesian Economics
- Coordination failures und alternative economic theories
?ber den Referenten
Daniele Tavani ist Associate Professor und Direktor des Graduiertenprogramms der wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakult?t an der Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen in den Bereichen Wirtschaftswachstum, Einkommen und Verm?gensverteilung, sowohl vom neoklassischen als auch vom alternativen Perspektiven. Zusammen mit Duncan Foley und Thomas Michl ist er Autor von Growth and Distribution, Second Edition (Harvard University Press 2019). Daniele hat in Zeitschriften wie dem Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics und dem Journal of Evolutionary Economics ver?ffentlicht. Er h?lt einen PhD in Wirtschaftswissenschaften an der New School for Social Research sowie promovierte er in politischer ?konomie an der Universit?t Sapienza in Rom.
Zeitplan
Montag, 17. Juni
10:00 – 11:30 – Classical growth and distribution, model closures, growth cycles (Raum: RZ/00.05)
- Growth and distribution basics
- Review of optimal control
- Labor market closures
- Stylized facts
- Endogenous cycles
13:00 – 14:30 – Endogenous intensity of technical change (Raum: RZ/00.07)
- Direction of technical change and factor shares
- Factor substitution vs. biased technical change
- Implications for growth and cycles
- Explicit firm-worker bargaining
- Empirical and numerical applications
14:45 – 16:15 – Endogenous intensity of technical change (Raum: RZ/00.07)
- Endogenous intensity of technical change
- Review of the Romer (1990) model
- Endogenous technical change and the growth cycle
- Numerical applications; growth cycles in the US
Dienstag, 18. Juni
10:00 – 11:30 – Post-Keynesian Economics (Raum: RZ/00.05)
- Post-Keynesian growth and distribution
- Kalecki vs. Kaldor
- Capacity utilization, effective demand and distribution
- Short run vs. long run
- Empirical debates
13:00 – 14:30 – Coordination failures und alternative economic theories (Raum: RZ/00.05)
- Coordination games and Post-Keynesian economics
- Microeconomic foundations
- Empirical applications: BEA data
- Numerical applications
- Wrap-up and discussion