Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Introduction 1
4. 1 Equilibrium Models Displaying Endogenous Fluctuations and Chaos: A Survey 8
5. 2 Periodic and Aperiodic Behaviour in Discrete One-Dimensional Dynamical Systems 44
6. 3 A Characterization of Erratic Dynamics in the Overlapping Generations Model 64
7. 4 On Endogenous Competitive Business Cycles 82
8. 5 Competitive Business Cycles in an Overlapping Generations Economy with Productive Investment 138
9. 6 Endogenous Fluctuations in a Two-Sector Overlapping Generations Economy 158
10. 7 Recent Theories of the Business Cycle: The Role of Speculative Inventories 180
11. 8 Endogenous Cycles with Uncertain Lifespans in Continuous Time 199
12. 9 The Hopf Bifurcation and the Existence and Stability of Closed Orbits in Multisector Models of Optimal Economic Growth 206
13. 10 Sources of Complex Dynamics in Two-Sector Growth Models 228
14. 11 Imperfect Financial Intermediation and Complex Dynamics 253
15. 12 Dynamical Systems that Solve Continuous-Time Concave Optimization Problems: Anything Goes 277
16. 13 Stochastic Equilibrium Oscillations 289
17. 14 Cyclical and Chaotic Behavior in a Dynamic Equilibrium Model, with Implications for Fiscal Policy 308
18. 15 Endogenous Business Cycles with Self-Fulfilling Optimism: A Model with Entry 330
19. 16 Keynesian Chaos 339
20. 17 Feedback Between R&D and Productivity Growth: A Chaos Model 355
21. 18 Is the Business Cycle Characterized by Deterministic Chaos? 374
22. 19 The Statistical Properties of Dimension Calculations Using Small Data Sets: Some Economic Applications 394
23. 20 Some Evidence on the Non-Linearity of Economic Time Series: 1890-1981 429
24. 21 Nonlinear Dynamics and Stock Returns 446
25. List of Contributors 475