The purpose of the paper is to study fluctuations in a fragile economy, where the role of debt and income distribution is considered. It is based upon a macro approach that emphasizes interactions between market processes and macro constraints within an uncertain environment. By utilizing a...

We consider a model of inflation and unemployment proposed in Ferri et al. (JEBO, 2001), in which the dynamics are described by a discontinuous piecewise linear map, made up of two branches. We shall show that the bounded dynamics may be classified in two cases: we may have either regular...