Cellular automata (CA) can be used to study nonlinear endogenous business cycles. This leads to an examination of the classification of business cycles based on Wolfram's four classes of the dynamical behaviour of cellular automata. Following the path set by Zambelli and Goodwin, a study of...

The aim of these notes is to revisit sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) sampling. SMC sampling is a powerful simulation tool for solving non-linear and/or non-Gaussian state space models. We illustrate this with several examples.