Stemp, Peter J. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2004
unstable eigenvalues. In a seminal paper, Blanchard and Kahn showed that, for linear models, in order to ensure a unique … solution, the number of discontinuous or “jump” variables must equal the number of unstable eigenvalues in the economy …. Assuming no zero eigenvalues, this also means that the number of predetermined variables, otherwise referred to as continuous …