A GDP fluctuation model based on interacting firms
Authored by Honggang Li, Yan Gao
Date Published: 2008-09-01
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2008.05.016
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Chinese National Natural Science Foundation
Chinese Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University
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Abstract
A distinctive feature of the market economies is the short-run fluctuations in output around the trend of long-run growth over time, and we regard this feature is internal to complex economic systems composed of interacting heterogeneous units. To explore such internal mechanisms of macroeconomic fluctuations, we present a multi-agent Keynesian theory-based model, which can provide a good approximation to the key empirical features of the western business cycles in the 20th Century, such as the structure of the autocorrelation function of overall output growth, correlations between the output growth of individual agents over time, the distribution of recessions, etc. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Agent-based model
GDP fluctuations
interacting firms