Consumer sentiment and business cycles: a Neimark-Sacker bifurcation scenario

We seek to demonstrate that consumer sentiment may create fluctuations in economic activity. Our nonlinear discrete-time model possesses, for instance, a Neimark-Sacker bifurcation, after which a stable steady state is replaced by (quasi-)periodic motion. Countercyclical interventions to stabilize the economy may even produce complex (chaotic) business cycles.

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Year of publication:	2008
Authors:	Westerhoff, Frank
Published in:	Applied Economics Letters. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 1350-4851. - Vol. 15.2008, 15, p. 1201-1205
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis Journals

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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