This paper takes an otherwise standard real-business-cycle setup with government sector, and augments it with shocks to consumer confidence to study business cycle fluctuations. A surprise increase in consumer confidence generates higher utility, as the household values consumption more in...

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...

Virtually all economies experience recurrent fluctuations in economic activity that persist for periods of several quarters to several years. Further, there is a definite tendency for the business cycles of developed countries to move together--there is a world component to business cycles. This...