Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/174422 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2017-13
Publisher: 
University of Massachusetts, Department of Economics, Amherst, MA
Abstract: 
Pervasive credit constraints have been seen as major sources of slow growth in developing economies. This paper clarifies a mechanism through which an inefficient financial system can reduce productivity growth. Using a two-sector model, second, we examine the implications for employment and the distribution of income. Both classical and Keynesian versions of the model are considered; saving decisions are central in the classical version while firms' investment and pricing decisions take center stage in the Keynesian version. We find that, although boosting the asymptotic rate of growth, a relaxation of credit constraints may reduce the share of the formal sector, increase inequality and underemployment, and have little or no effect on the medium-run rate of growth.
Subjects: 
credit constraints
productivity growth
dual economy
underemployment
income distribution
JEL: 
O11
O41
E2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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