Instabilities in economic network models: Is perfect rationality dynamically stable?

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• Bonart, J (Imperial College London)
• Wednesday 19 November 2014, 14:00-15:00
• Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute Gatehouse.

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Systemic Risk: Mathematical Modelling and Interdisciplinary Approaches

We study a dynamical model of interconnected firms which allows for certain market imperfections and frictions, restricted here to be myopic price forecasts and slow adjustment of production. Whereas the standard rational equilibrium is still formally a stationary solution of the dynamics, we show that this equilibrium becomes linearly unstable in a whole region of parameter space. When agents attempt to reach the optimal production target too quickly, coordination breaks down and the dynamics becomes chaotic. In the unstable, “turbulent” phase, the aggregate volatility of the total output remains substantial even when the amplitude of idiosyncratic shocks goes to zero or when the size of the economy becomes large. In other words, crises become endogenous. This suggests an interesting resolution of the “small shocks, large business cycles” puzzle.

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