Chaotic dynamics in a monetary economy with habit persistence

Abstract

This paper develops a cash-in-advance model for persistent habits of consumption. With a binding cash-in-advance constraint, the economic transition can be represented by a one-dimensional or two-dimensional dynamical system, depending on persistent habits of only cash-goods consumption or both cash-goods and credit-goods consumption, respectively. We verify the existence of entropic chaos and ergodic chaos for the former case and identify the presence of entropic chaos for the latter. (C) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.