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The Credit Cycle and the Financial Fragility Hypothesis: An Evolutionary Population Approach

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  • JORGE OMAR RAZO-DE ANDA

    (INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL)

  • SALVADOR CRUZ-AKÉ

    (INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL)

  • ANA CECILIA PARADA-ROJAS

    (INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL)

Abstract

Minsky's idea of triggering a financial crisis is the adoption of risky financial positions by companies and their relationship with the financial system through banks and the credit they provide. The present work seeks to provide an explanation from a microeconomic point of view through the behavior of agents and their decision making under a Theory of evolutionary games, especially population games. The great advantage of this type of games is that it allows us to obtain proportions of the different decisions that a population or subpopulation is taking and how their interaction promotes equilibrium and the dynamics towards (or around) them.This allows us to determine the dynamics and equilibria of the credit cycle, following Minsky's idea of financial fragility. Additionally, the dynamics of the replicator allows transforming the differential equations in a Lotka-Volterra system, from which it can be concluded that both companies and banks adopt a predatory prey relationship in order to survive.

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  • Jorge Omar Razo-De Anda & Salvador Cruz-Aké & Ana Cecilia Parada-Rojas, 2019. "The Credit Cycle and the Financial Fragility Hypothesis: An Evolutionary Population Approach," Proceedings of International Academic Conferences 9010806, International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences.
    • Handle: RePEc:sek:iacpro:9010806
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    Keywords

    Capital Structure; Evolutionary Games; Behavioral Microeconomics;
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    JEL classification:

    • G02 - Financial Economics - - General - - - Behavioral Finance: Underlying Principles
    • C73 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Stochastic and Dynamic Games; Evolutionary Games
    • G01 - Financial Economics - - General - - - Financial Crises

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