In this paper, we look for the relevance of chaos in the well-known Hicks-Samuelson's oscillator model investigating the endogenous fluctuations of the national income between two limits: full employment income and under-employment income. We compute the Lyapunov exponent, via Monte-Carlo...

This article shows that the typologies of economic cycles and long run growth in Lebanon seem to be modified over the 1970-2009 period. Before 1990, the end of the conflict which began in 1975, expansion’s phases record a longer duration than the phases of recession and the cyclic amplitudes...

This article shows that the business cycle magnitude and the output gap strongly varied in the Lebanon between 1970 and 2008, the most important variations taking place from 1975 to 1990 corresponding to the period of the civil war. Nevertheless, a decrease in the discrepancy between these two...