Threshold nonlinearities and asymmetric endogenous business cycles

Junichiro Ishida; Masanori Yokoo

doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2003.04.006

Threshold nonlinearities and asymmetric endogenous business cycles

Junichiro Ishida, Masanori Yokoo

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Abstract

This paper presents a model of endogenous business cycles in the presence of knowledge spillovers and a time-to-build restriction. There are two key assumptions that characterize the model: (i) the payoff to each firm depends on the aggregate state of knowledge, and (ii) the innovation of a project is time-consuming. Under those assumptions, a simple structure is shown to be described by a piecewise linear difference equation with a discontinuity. We show that the resulting dynamics generated by such a dynamical system leads to an asymmetric periodic cycle of arbitrary period that appears to switch repeatedly between different regimes.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	175-189
Number of pages	15
Journal	Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Volume	54
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2003.04.006
Publication status	Published - Jun 2004

Keywords

Asymmetric periodic cycles
Knowledge spillovers
Piecewise linear difference equation
Threshold nonlinearities
Time-to-build

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Economics and Econometrics
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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