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Patrick Artus

United States and euro zone: Is the trend in the return to the shareholder dangerous for the economy?

We define the return to the shareholder as the sum of dividends and share buybacks. The trend in the return to the shareholder (we look at the United States and the euro zone) is dangerous for the economy if it leads to: An increase in corporate debt; An abnormal squeezing of wages; A decline in investments. We can estimate that: In the United States, the growing return to the shareholder has been associated with an increase in debt and a squeezing of wages; I n the euro zone, the return to the shareholder has been declining as a trend and has not been associated with a negative development.
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Patrick Artus

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