Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/126588 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 206
Publisher: 
University of Zurich, Department of Economics, Zurich
Abstract: 
This paper presents a 3x3 general equilibrium model of an OLGeconomy with technological uncertainty, heterogeneous agents and quasi-homothetic preferences to analyze structural change between the real and the financial sector as well as within the financial sector. Besides the consumption and investment good two types of financial services are produced. The three factors of production are: Capital, skilled and unskilled labor. Financial services are needed for transforming savings into future consumption possibilities. The financial market provides deposits and an incomplete set of securities. Payoffs of assets are determined by the future profitability of the technologies in which they are invested. We show the channels through which structural change and inequality reinforce each other and show how they simultaneously emerge from rising per-capita income, an increase in skill supply and technical change.
Subjects: 
structural change
financialization
quasi-homothetic port- folio decision
inequality
JEL: 
O16
J31
D90
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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