Business Cycles: Theory and Empirical Methods

I Complex Dynamics in the Business Cycle.- 1 Business Cycles and Long Waves: A Behavioral Disequilibrium Perspective.- 2 Competitive Markets and Endogenous Cycles: An Evaluation.- 3 Analytical and Numerical Methods in the Study of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems in Keynesian Macroeconomics.- 4 Business Cycles, Fiscal Policy, and Budget Deficits.- 5 Continuous-Time Dynamical Models with Distributed Lags.- II Monetary and Financial Factors in the Business Cycle.- 6 Price Flexibility and Output Stability: An Old Keynesian View.- 7 The Stability of Models of Monetary Growth with Adaptive Expectations or Myopic Perfect Foresight.- 8 A Model of the Financial Sector and Its Reaction to Aggregate Fluctuations.- 9 External Finance, Investment Expenditure and the Business Cycle.- 10 Monetary Factors and Gestation Lag in a Kaleckian Model of the Business Cycle.- III Testing for Nonlinearities in the Business Cycle.- 11 Asymmetric Economic Propagation Mechanisms.- 12 Asymmetries in Business Cycles: Econometric Techniques and Empirical Evidence.- 13 Testing for Chaos and Nonlinearities in Macroeconomic Time Series.- 14 Using U-Statistics to Detect Business Cycle Nonlinearities.- 15 The Time Reversibility Test with Application to Financial Data.