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Bifurcations in Continuous-Time Macroeconomic Systems

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  • William A. Barnett

    (Washington University in St. Louis)

  • Yijun He

    (Washington University in St. Louis)

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This research investigates bifurcation phenomena in a continuous-time model of the United Kingdom. We use the Bergstrom, Nowman, and Wymer continuous-time dynamic macroeconometric model of the UK economy. We find that bifurcations are important with this model for understanding the dynamic properties of the system and for determining which parameters are the most important to those dynamic properties. We have discovered that both saddle-node bifurcations and Hopf bifurcations indeed exist with this model within the model's region of plausible parameter settings. We find that the existence of Hopf bifurcations is particularly useful, since those bifurcations may provide explanations for some cyclical phenomena in the macroeconomy. We further design numerical algorithms to locate the bifurcation boundaries, which we display in three dimensional color bifurcation diagrams. A notable and perhaps surprising fact is that both types of bifurcation can coexist with this well-regarded UK model---in the same neighborhood of the parameter space.

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  • William A. Barnett & Yijun He, 1998. "Bifurcations in Continuous-Time Macroeconomic Systems," Macroeconomics 9805018, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:wpa:wuwpma:9805018
    Note: Type of Document - Postscript Compressed; pages: 24 ; figures: included. This paper was presented by Yijun He at the annual meetings of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics and has been submitted to the Society's journal, the Journal of Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, which is an online journal published by MIT Press.
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    Keywords

    nonlinearity chaos bifurcation macroeconomics UK continuous time;

    JEL classification:

    • C14 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
    • C22 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes
    • E37 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles

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