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Chaotic Dynamics

Chaotic Dynamics

Chaotic Dynamics

Theory and Applications to Economics
Alfredo Medio, Università degli Studi di Venezia
Giampaolo Gallo, Università degli Studi di Venezia
May 1995
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9780521484619
£36.99
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    This book is a tool for the theoretical and numerical investigation of nonlinear dynamical systems modelled by means of ordinary differential and difference equations. The work is divided into two parts: a book, comprising a theoretical overview of the subject matter and a number of applications; and an integrated software program. Although the emphasis is laid on dynamical systems arising from economic motivation, and the applications are derived from these systems, both the text and the program will also be of use to researchers in other fields of study. The book first discusses the fundamental concepts and methods of chaos theory, and then applies these theoretical results and the facilities provided by the companion software program to models suggested by economic problems.

    Product details

    May 1995
    Paperback
    9780521484619
    364 pages
    236 × 156 × 28 mm
    0.575kg
    99 b/w illus.
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Preface
    • Part I. Theory:
    • 1. General introduction: chaos and economics
    • 2. Basic mathematical concepts
    • 3. A user's guide
    • 4. Surfaces of sections and Poincaré maps
    • 5. Spectral analysis
    • 6. Lyapunov characteristic exponents
    • 7. Dimensions
    • 8. Symbolic dynamics
    • 9. Transition to chaos: theoretical predictive criteria
    • 10. Analysis of experimental signals: some theoretical problems
    • Part II. Applications to Economics:
    • 11. Discrete and continuous chaos
    • 12. Cycles and chaos in overlapping generations models with production
    • 13. Chaos in a continuous-time model of inventory business cycles
    • 14. Analysis of experimental signals
    • Part III. Software:
    • 15. DMC manual
    • 16. MODEL
    • 17. EVAL
    • 18. PLOT
    • 19. STAT
    • 20. FILES
    • 21. UTIL
    • 22. OPTS
    • 23. QUIT
    • 24. Internal menu commands
    • 25. DMC internal compiler.
      Authors
    • Alfredo Medio , Università degli Studi di Venezia
    • Giampaolo Gallo , Università degli Studi di Venezia