Financial instability and debt deflation dynamics in a bottom-up approach

In this paper we expand the agent based model introduced by Chiarella and Di Guilrni (Chiarella, C and Di Guilmi, C.. The financial instability hypothesis: A stochastic microfoundation framework, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. 35(8).1151 1171. 2011) in which the business cycle ori.".tes by the modifications in firms' balance sheets induced by their investment decisions. During periods of market euphoria. is increase their capital stock and their level of debt. At the same time the increasing availability of liquidity for investors causes inflation in asset price. When firms' debt reaches an unsustainable level the virtuous cycle is reversed in a depression. We modify the original model in order to study the impact of the dependence of firms' expectations on the stock market performance and of the rise in the proportion of Ponzi firms. We also rim a further computational experiment to assess the effect of the buy-back of firms' shares.