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

More than a decade has now passed since rapidly declining house prices triggered a global financial crisis that developed into a global recession, the speed and depth of which were unprecedented in recent history. The overarching objective of this Ph.D. thesis is to improve our understanding of...