Technical Innovations and Banking in a Quantum Economy

Song, Edward (2014): Technical Innovations and Banking in a Quantum Economy.

Abstract

The economy often moves in large jumps. For example, bank runs can quickly cause an economy to suddenly drop into a deep recession. In this paper, bank approval of loans to a genius entrepreneur may cause an economy to jump to a higher income level or growth rate. In a simple model, this implies that the economy has the possibility to exist in discrete states, a ground state (lowest production level) or an excited state (higher production levels). In a more dynamic model, bank approval of the loan causes an apparent technology shock that temporarily increases economic growth. In this paper, the economy is modeled as a regime switching model, i.e. a Markov-Switching model.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Macroeconomics, Banking, Multiple Equilibria, Behavioral Economics, Switching-Models.
• Subjects: E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E0 - General; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E0 - General > E02 - Institutions and the Macroeconomy; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E2 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy > E22 - Investment ; Capital ; Intangible Capital ; Capacity

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