Economics from a Physicist's point of view: Stochastic Dynamics of Supply and Demand in a Single Market. Part I

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2002-07-30

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0207118v1

Physics

General Physics

10 pages, LaTex

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Proceeding from the concept of rational expectations, a new dynamic model of supply and demand in a single market with one supplier, one buyer, and one kind of commodity is developed. Unlike the cob-web dynamic theories with adaptive expectations that are made up of deterministic difference equations, the new model is cast in the form of stochastic differential equations. The stochasticity is due to random disturbances ("input") to endogenous variables. The disturbances are assumed to be stationary to the second order with zero means and given covariance functions. Two particular versions of the model with different endogenous variables are considered. The first version involves supply, demand, and price. In the second version the stock of commodity is added. Covariance functions and variances of the endogenous variables ("output") are obtained in terms of the spectral theory of stochastic stationary processes. The impact of both deterministic parameters of the model and the random input on the stochastic output is analyzed and new conditions of chaotic instability are found. If these conditions are met, the endogenous variables undergo unbounded chaotic oscillations. As a result, the market that would be stable if undisturbed loses stability and collapses. This phenomenon cannot be discovered even in principle in terms of any cobweb deterministic model.

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