Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/37178 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2010: Ökonomie der Familie - Session: Growth and Demography No. E5-V1
Publisher: 
Verein für Socialpolitik, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
Economic institutions determine prospects for growth and development. In this paper a condition on the primitives determines whether an economy supports institutions that implement markets. Agents differ in land holdings, skill, and power. A competitive market assigns land to the skilled, not necessarily to the powerful. Therefore a market allocation needs to be robust to coalitional expropriation. More equally distributed power and higher congruence of land and power favor stable markets. Whether markets are stable forever in a dynamic setting, or alternate with expropriation in a limit cycle, decreasing efficiency and amplifying macroeconomic fluctuations, depends on social mobility, initial inequality, and the mismatch between demand and supply.
Subjects: 
Expropriation
market institutions
inequality
fluctuations
coalition formation
JEL: 
E00
O40
C71
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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