Business Cycle Dynamics: Models and Tools (Paperback)

Aims and Scope.- Some Methods for the Global Analysis of Closed Invariant Curves in Two-Dimensional Maps.- Center Bifurcation for a Two-Dimensional Piecewise Linear Map.- Short History of the Multiplier-Accelerator Model.- Multiplier-Accelerator Models with Random Perturbations.- Non-Autonomous Business Cycle Model.- The Hicksian Model with Investment Floor and Income Ceiling.- Growth Cycles in a Modified Hicksian Business Cycle Model.- Coexistence of Attractors and Homoclinic Loops in a Kaldor-Like Business Cycle Model.- Expectations and the Multiplier-Accelerator Model.- 'Floors' and/or 'Ceilings' and the Persistence of Business Cycles.- A Goodwin-Type Model with Cubic Investment Function.- A Goodwin-Type Model with a Piecewise Linear Investment Function.