The last fifteen or twenty years have been marked by fundamental advances in the sources of complex behavior in micro- and macro-economics, in the practical and methodological implications of such behavior, and in the methods and tools appropriate to cope with them. Much of these developments...

The Classical Cournot Model -- Concave Oligopolies -- General Oligopolies -- Modified and Extended Oligopolies -- Oligopolies with Misspecified and Uncertain Price Functions, and Learning -- Overview and Directions for Future Research

Optimal Growth and Endogenous Cycles -- Optimal Growth and Chaotic Dynamics -- Global Dynamics in Optimal Growth Models -- Dynamic Models with Non-concave Technologies -- Stochastic Optimal Growth Models -- Indeterminancy in Exogenous Growth Models -- Interdeterminancy in Endogenous Growth Models

Übersichtliche Lehrbuchdarstellung zu einem aktuellen theoretischen Thema, insbesondere auch als "Grundlagenforschung" für das Kapitalmarktgeschehen. Aus dem Inhalt: Einleitung. Starkes und schwaches Kausalitätsprinzip. Einführung notwendiger Grundbegriffe. Eingrenzung des Begriffes "Chaos"....

Statistical analysis of stock markets and foreign exchange markets has demonstrated the intermittent nature of economic time series. A nonlinear model of business cycles is able to simulate intermittency arising from order-chaos and chaos-chaos transitions. This monograph introduces new concepts...

Non-Linearities Related to the Financial Sector: Mittnik, S., Semmler, W.: Estimating a Banking-Macro Model Using a Multi-Regime VAR -- Martínez-García, E.: U.S. Business Cycles, Monetary Policy and the External Finance Premium -- Gallegati, M.: Early Warning Signals of Financial Stress: A...

Drawing on the middle chapters from the first edition of J. Barkley Rosser Jr.'s seminal work, From Catastrophe to Chaos, this book presents and unusual perspective on economics and economic analysis. Current economic theory largely depends upon assuming that the world is fundamentally...

Transferring Negative Externalities: Feedback Effects of Self-Protection Choices in a Two Hemispheres Model -- Structural Change, Economic Growth and Environmental Dynamics with Heterogeneous Agents -- Bifurcations and Chaotic Attractors in an Overlapping Generations Model with Negative...