Detecting self-organisational change in economic processes exhibiting logistic growth

John Foster () and Phillip Wild

Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 1999, vol. 9, issue 1, 109-133

Abstract: This paper offers an econometric methodology for the detection of self-organisational change (defined in terms of the presence of time irreversibility, structural change and fundamental uncertainty) in economic processes that follow logistic diffusion growth paths in historical time. The approach we adopted is built upon recent developments in `moving window' spectral methods which are applied to the scaled residuals generated by estimated logistic diffusion models. We illustrate the use of such methods by examining the case of a financial instrument, namely, the Australian Building Society Deposit, which experienced logistic growth in its market share until bank deregulation was enacted in the 1980s. We show that there is clear evidence that self-organisational change is present over the historical period considered.

Keywords: Discontinuity; Evolution; Logistic diffusion; Non-linearity; Non-stationarity; Self-organisation; Spectral methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C4 C5 N1 N2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999-01-29
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