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Chaos und sensitive Abhängigkeit in ökonomischen Prozessen
Stahlecker, Peter | Schmidt, Karsten
Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, Vol. 111 (1991), Iss. 2 : pp. 187–206
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Stahlecker, Peter
Schmidt, Karsten
Abstract
Sensitive dependence on initial conditions is a major characteristic of chaotic systems. This article provides an introduction to the concept of Lyapunov exponents, which characterize the behavior of a dynamic process by measuring its degree of sensitive dependence. If the largest Lyapunov exponent is positive, the system is called chaotic. Provided that an economic model can be expressed explicitly as a system of difference equations, numerical calculation of the largest Lyapunov exponent is possible. However, the dynamic specification is often unknown. In these cases, the largest Lyapunov exponent may be estimated from time series data.