American Journal of Economics, Finance and Management, Vol. 1, No. 5, October 2015 Publish Date: Aug. 27, 2015 Pages: 559-573

General Equilibrium and Recession Phenomenon

Nicholas S. Gonchar*, Wolodymyr H. Kozyrski, Anatol S. Zhokhin

Mathematical Modeling Department, the N. N. Bogolubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine

Abstract

The theorems we proved describe the structure of economic equilibrium in the exchange economy model. We have studied the structure of property vectors under given structure of demand vectors at which given price vector is equilibrium one. On this ground, we describe the general structure of the equilibrium state and give characteristic of equilibrium state describing economic recession. The theory developed is applied to explain the state of the economy in some European countries.

Keywords

Economic Equilibrium Quality, Exchange Model, Degeneracy Multiplicity, Recession


1. Introduction

There are many factors generating economic recessions. A knowledge of the various causes leading to unwanted economic evolution is very important. Skillful ability to confront these challenges is of essential priority. For example, the monetary policy stimulating production growth is always accompanied by inflation. So, taming it, the central bank can sometimes lead to economic fall. Another example is an artificial policy of exchange rate retention that may eventually lead to a sharp depreciation of the national currency.

We know many such economic destabilizing factors that are in some detail described by W. Semmler [1] where macroeconomic models are also exposed characterizing these phenomena. If these models can be a ground for the development of economic policy, they deserve attention. How can one at an early stage identify hidden factors of unwanted economic development? At the macroeconomic model level, it is hardly possible. However, there is a possibility of less aggregated description allowing to identify the key factors destabilizing economy.

The subject of paper: In this paper and in the previous ones [2,3,4], at microeconomic level under very general assumptions, we have established equilibrium state quality. The scope of the subject: When demand for a decisive group of goods is strictly less than the supply, the money partially loses its real value and the national currency devalues. And it does not depend on the nature of the factors that gave rise to it. It can be both ineffective monetary policy stimulating economic growth or the policy of raw materials export that led to the collapse of the economy after the fall of the national currency. The main is to identify these trends at an early stage.

The main goal of the paper is to present here the theory we have developed to characterize economic equilibrium states describing the recession phenomenon.

The novelty of research work lies in its model grounds containing a new theory of information economics describing general equilibrium and characterizing economic recession.

Research Significance. The paper we present here has both theoretical and practical significance due to main Theorems underlying the theory of general equilibrium we developed and its predictive power to determine possible economic trend to recession state. The theory we give here can serve as an essential tool to study phenomena of economy decreasing.

We organized the paper as follows. In the Introduction, we give a short sketch of the problem history. In what follows, we introduce the notion of equilibrium quality. Then we state the problem and prove the main Theorems of the theory we developed. Then we present aggregated economy description in the general equilibrium. Next, we apply the theoretic model exposed to analyze the economic situation in some European countries. At rest, we end the paper with Conclusions and References.

Burns and Mitchell [5] identified a recession as a phenomenon when a wide range of economic indicators fell for a certain period, for example, for six months. The first phenomenological model containing cyclic fluctuations in the national product was proposed by P. A. Samuelson [6]. The theory of real business cycles (RBC) is a class of macroeconomic models in which fluctuations in the business cycle can be largely due to the real technology shocks. In contrast to the leading theories of business cycle theories, RBC theory understands the recession and periods of economic growth as an effective response to external changes in the real economic environment.

Let us cite here the Summers’ statement [7] on the real business cycle models: "in my opinion, the real business cycle model by Kidland and Prescott [8] does not explain the phenomenon of cyclical economic development observed in the United States and other capitalist economies in the world."

The reason for it is as described in [7] that:

1)  Kydland and Prescott use the wrong parameters (one-third of time households devote to business activity, not one-sixth; historical real interest rates have been 4%, not 1%).

2)  The lack of independent evidence that technology shocks cause business cycles, and largely the impossibility to specify the technological reasons for the observed recessions.

3)  Kydland and Prescott model ignores commodity prices and the prediction of the asset values.

Kydland and Prescott model ignores the exchange mechanism destruction (the inability of factories to sell their goods in exchange for labor).

RBC theory is the main cause of conflict between the macro-economists [5] because it categorically rejects Keynesian economics and the real efficiency of monetarist economy .

At all times, the recession was accompanied by the exchange mechanism destruction.

For the first time such a hypothesis was formulated in [5]: "It seems clear that a central aspect of depression and perhaps, more generally, economic fluctuations, is an exchange mechanism breaking. Read any living account of the Great Depression time in the United States. The firms produced the goods and wanted to sell them. Workers were ready to sell labor in exchange for goods. However, the exchange did not happen."

How can one mathematically explain the destruction of the exchange mechanism? For this, we’ll use a mathematical model of economic equilibrium, proposed and studied in [2,3] and examined in more detail in [4], where an assumption was first made on the mathematical  aspect of the recession mechanism.

In the first part of the paper, we’ll clarify the mathematical nature of the exchange mechanism destruction and prove the theorems confirming the hypotheses formulated in [3]. In the second part, we’ll build a mathematical model of economic equilibrium describing adequately the economic equilibrium of the state economy. In the third part, we’ll apply it to reveal recession within some European countries involving Ukraine.

2. About a Quality of Equilibrium State

Let us consider an exchange model with  consumers. Each -th consumer has some non-zero set of goods . There are  types of goods in the economic system. If some component  of the vector  vanishes, then the -th consumer has not -th type of goods. If the -th consumer is individual, he/she has such a resource as a labor force.

Among consumers, there are firms that offer a set of products they produce and not only. For the economic system to operate, commodity exchange between consumers is needed. For firms, to buy resources from individuals to produce goods. For individuals, to buy goods for their needs.

Suppose that the -th consumer having commodity set  wants to exchange it for some commodity set proportional to the vector . We have studied such a model in [2,3,4] where we gave the necessary and sufficient conditions for equilibrium existence and constructed algorithms to find such states.

In this paper, we continue to study the model with the aim to explain and detect the recession. We assume that total supply in the model is  where the first component of every vector  is money supply and the first component of the vector  is money demand.

Definition 1. We say that economic system in exchange model is in an economic equilibrium state [2] if there is such non-zero non-negative vector  that the inequalities

         (1)

hold, where ,

Suppose the set of non-negative vectors ,, satisfies the condition: there exists a such non-empty subset  of the set  that . The problem is to describe a set of non-negative vectors   for which a non-negative vector  solves the set of equations

,            (2)

if components  of the vector  are strictly positive ones and other components , and the set of non-negative vectors ,, satisfy the conditions above.

Theorem 1. Assume the set of non-negative vectors , satisfies the conditions   where is non-empty subset of  and the vector =,  belongs to a positive cone formed by vectors ,  The necessary and sufficient condition that the vector,  solves the set of equations (2) is the representation for the set of vectors

   (3)

where the vector  solves the set of equations

                      (4)

 is the Kronecker symbol,   and the set of vectors ,  satisfies the conditions  

Proof. Necessity. Let us suppose that  solves the set of equations (2) and satisfies Theorem 1 conditions. Let

,                    (5)

The vector  satisfies the set of equations (4). Introduce the notation

,            (6)

Then

            (7)

The vector set (6) satisfying conditions (7) can be presented as the sum of two vectors  where the vector  is such that ,  and components of the vector  satisfy the conditions . To satisfy the conditions (7), we have to require for the set of vectors  carrying out of conditions

                (8)

and for the set of vectors  carrying out of  the condition

                        (9)

since the conditions   are valid. Describe all the vectors satisfying conditions (8). Consider the set of vectors

                     (10)

The vectors   satisfy the conditions

 ,             (11)

It is easy to show that the set of vectors  , has the rank  where  is the number of elements in the set . Therefore, for every vector  there is unique representation

                   (12)

From the condition (8), we have

               (13)

As a consequence of linear independence of the vectors  we obtain ,  As , then, adding to (12) the vector we have

Then it is obvious that  By this, we proved the representation for the vector . It is evident that  The necessity is proven.

Sufficiency. Assume the representation (3) holds. Then . From the Theorem conditions . Therefore, . Substituting  into (4) we have needed statement. Theorem 1 is proven.

Theorem 1 is the Theorem about market clearing. Having fixed demand structure determined by the vector set , we have found the necessary and sufficient conditions for the supply , structure under which the demand is equal to the supply if the equilibrium price vector is known. The Theorem is important as an instrument allowing for the fixed demand structure to find out the supply structure that gives equilibrium state degeneracy explaining recession phenomenon.

Definition 2. At given equilibrium price vector , property distribution   in society is equivalent to that ,  if there exists a set of vectors   satisfying conditions ,  and for the vectors    the representation

 

is valid.

Let us note that at equilibrium equivalent property distributions have the same value. Therefore, the Theorem 2 holds.

Theorem 2. If the vector  is an equilibrium price vector satisfying the set of equations (2), then it is also an equilibrium price vector for the equivalent property distribution ,  and satisfies the same set of equations (2) with property vectors ,  under condition that

Theorem 3. Suppose that the Theorem 1 conditions hold and  has positive components with indices belonging to the set  and solves the set of equations (2). Then a set of such vectors ,  exists that ,   and an equivalent property distribution   is such that the rank of the vector set   does not exceed  The set of equations

 = ,

has branching solution  whose degeneracy multiplicity is not less than  where  The value of the goods whose indices belong to the set  can be arbitrary one.

Proof. Construct the vector set  declared in the Theorem 3. Introduce the vector  where   and the set of vectors     . Suppose

 

It is evident that   . Moreover,    From the Theorem 1, the validity of the representation (3) follows for the vectors ,. The set of vectors  we have constructed is such as the vector set  in the Theorem 1. Therefore, introduce the vector ,  where the vector  enters vector  representation. Then, having representation (3), we obtain

Obviously,  . Really, the vectors ,  have zero components at the set of indices , therefore,  . If  then  In fact, as   then components of the vectors

,

vanish at the set of indices . Therefore, for such price vector  that , and components ,  being arbitrary non-negative numbers, we have

=

Therefore, . Further, as  then

From here, we obtain that the vector  solves the set of equations

 

From equalities ,  it follows that the number of linearly independent solutions of the last set of equations is not less than  that means that a degeneracy multiplicity of equilibrium state is not less than .

The Theorem 3 is proven.

In this Theorem, basing on the above introduced notion of equivalent property distribution, we show the existence of such equivalent property distribution in society for which multiple degeneracy of economic equilibrium happens. In such a case, random factors can provoke the transition between any possible equilibrium states.

The Theorem proven confirms our assumption from [3] that at the equilibrium state the recession is accompanied by equilibrium state degeneracy. From the Theorem 3, it follows that at equilibrium point  there is branching of solutions, i.e., there is  -parametric family of solutions being family of equilibrium states. In this case, let us introduce the notion of real value for the national currency unit to characterize such equilibrium states.

In the model considered, we suppose that the first component  of the equilibrium price vector  in the economic system is the nominal value of such specific goods as money, which we take equal one as equilibrium price vector is determined up to positive factor and the first component  of the supply vector  is the supply of money in the economic system.

Let us determine the real money value for the equilibrium price vector  supposing

If the degeneracy multiplicity of equilibrium state  equals  then the real money value is determined uniquely. In that case, money will be both a medium of exchange and a means to save the value. If , then given property distribution in economic system corresponds to a family of equilibrium states.

In this case, money has eroded value because the last formula gives a family of values. If the fluctuation of the real money value is insignificant at given , then money has both exchange function and approximate value function too. In the opposite case, i.e., when criticality becomes such that money loses in part its value function, national currency devalues and, as we see, the reason is a discrepancy between supply and demand structures in the economic system. In such economic system, reform is needed for the property distribution structure, i.e., structural economic transformation.

We give here the Theorem from [3] being necessary to study the general equilibrium structure.

Theorem 4. Let the conditions     hold. The necessary and sufficient conditions for an equilibrium to exist in the exchange model are the following ones: there exist such non-zero non-negative vector  and non-zero non-negative vector  that

,                     (14)

and for the vectors  the following representation holds

   ,                (15)

where  is non-zero non-negative vector satisfying the conditions

,   (16)

Theorem 5. Suppose that Theorem 4 conditions hold and is such equilibrium price vector that

           (17)

            (18)

Then   where  , empty set and non-empty subset of

See Proof of the Theorem in [2].

Theorem 6. Assume that the Theorem 4 conditions hold and  having positive components with the indices belonging to the set  solves the inequality set (1). Then there is vector set, ,  such that ,   and an equivalent property distribution   is such that the rank of the vector set   does not exceed  and The set of equations

 = ,

has a branching solution  whose degeneracy multiplicity is not less than  where  The value of goods whose indices belong to the set  can be arbitrary one.

Proof. By the Theorem 4, the vector  solves the set of equations

 =

Denote

,

The vector  solves the set of equations (14). Introduce the notation

,          (19)

Then

             (20)

The set of vectors (19) satisfying conditions (20) can be expressed as the sum of two vectors , where the vector  is such that ,  and components of the vector  satisfy the conditions . To satisfy conditions (20), we need to require that the set of vectors ,  satisfied the conditions

  

 as the conditions   are valid.

As in the Theorem 1 Proof, from this we obtain the representation for the vector set

 

where vector set  satisfies the conditions    

Let us construct the vector set  declared in the Theorem 6. Introduce a vector , where   and a vector family     . Let us put

 

It is evident that   . Moreover,    Introduce the vector ,  where the vector  enters the representation for the vector , Then we obtain

It is obvious that . It follows from that the vectors ,  have zero components at the set of indices . Therefore,  . If  then  In fact,  as   then components of the vectors

,

vanish at the set of indices . Therefore, for such price vector  that , and components ,  are arbitrary non-negative numbers, we have

=

Therefore, .

From here, we obtain that the vector  solves the set of equations

 

From equalities ,  it follows that the number of linearly independent solutions to the last equation set is not less than  having mean that the degeneracy multiplicity of equilibrium state is not less than .

Theorem 6 is proven.

The Theorem 6 meaning is that at equilibrium state there exists such equivalent property distribution under which the demand for goods whose indices belong to the set  is the same as their supply, i.e., components of the vectors  and  for the indices from  coincide. From this, it follows that the value of such goods is not determined by equilibrium condition. And, as we note above, in this case money loses in part its functions of exchange and value. Degeneracy multiplicity of equilibrium state in this case is not less than .

If this state significantly destabilizes the economy, then devaluation of the national currency happens inevitably and all the problems related occur, namely, increasing unemployment and devaluation of deposits. From the quality of this equilibrium state, it follows that a further increase in money supply, even at a fairly low interest rate without changing the structure of investment will not lead to economic growth. What is needed is a cardinal change of economic structure, investments into new perspective industries, and creation of new jobs in these sectors. Therefore, recession state is such equilibrium state when a significant part of goods produced are not selling which in turn leads to the decline of many indicators of the economic state. The quality of this equilibrium is such that there is a breakdown of the exchange mechanism.

In the next two Theorems, we give sufficient conditions for the existence of such equilibrium at which demand equals supply.

Theorem 7. Let the matrix , whose columns are the vectors  be expressed as , where the matrix  is non-negative and indecomposable one and the matrix is composed of columns ,  and is such that   . Then there exists a strictly positive solution to the problem

                 (21)

with respect to the vector  where . If the vector  belongs to the interior of the cone generated by the vectors   then there exists a problem (2) solution solving the problem

                  (22)

Proof. The problem conjugate to the problem (21)

                 (23)

has a solution . As the matrix  is non-negative and indecomposable one, the problem

                     (24)

has unique up to a constant factor solution. Therefore, by the Perron-Frobenius theorem, there is a strictly positive solution to the conjugate  problem

 

Let us put . Then the vector  is a strictly positive solution to the problem (21). By the Theorem assumptions, there is a strictly positive solution  to the problem (22). Substituting vector  into (21) and taking into account (22), we obtain that the vector  solves the problem

 .

The last means that the vector  is a strictly positive solution to the set of equations (2).

Theorem 8. Let the matrix be composed of columns ,  and such that  , and the matrix  whose columns are vectors  be expressed as , where the matrix  is such that  . If the vector  solves the problem

                     (25)

and the vector belongs to the interior of the cone generated by the vectors   then there exists a strictly positive equilibrium vector solving the problem (2).

Proof. As

,

we’ll demand the validity of equality  or

To satisfy the last equality, suppose

                   (26)

However, equation set (26) has a strictly positive solution by the Theorem assumption. Theorem 8 is proven.

Corollary 1. If the matrix  in the Theorem 8 is, moreover, symmetric one, then the vector  appearing in the Theorem 8 solves the set of equations (25).

3. Economic Equilibrium Within Aggregated Economy Description

Suppose that the economy, as earlier, produces  types of goods and contains consumers. We’ll say that the economy description is aggregated up to  pure industries if the set  is a union of such non-empty subsets , , that , , ,  is empty set and a mapping  of the set  into the set  is given by the rule:  где , , , .

If we characterize, as in the previous Section, consumers by property vectors  and demand vectors , , then within aggregated description every consumer will have aggregated characteristics, namely, property vectors  and demand vectors , . Let an economy be in an economic equilibrium state with the equilibrium price vector , then

where ,, .

We can rewrite the last inequality set in the aggregated form

          (27)

Definition 3. We say that an aggregation up to  pure industries in economy is agreed with equilibrium state described in disaggregated way if there exists such aggregated equilibrium vector  that

       (28)

and, moreover, equalities in (27) and (28) hold for the same indices

Further, we build mathematical model of economic equilibrium at the level of state. Suppose, the state’s economy is described by  pure industries each of which produces one type of goods. Production structure is described by the Leontief productive input-output matrix . Let the gross output vector in an economy is , where  is the gross output of  the -th pure industry.

Suppose that in an open economy the interindustry balance

 

holds, where  is a final consumption vector consisting of the sum of household final consumption vectors and the vector of gross capital formation and inventory changes,  export vector,  is import vector. Let  be a price vector, where  is the price for unit of goods produced by the -th industry. The pure -th industry of the state’s economy forms the demand for the resources of households determined by the vectors   

Supply vector of -th industry is  where  is the Kronecker symbol. The value of the gross product produced by -th industry is  and new produced value by -th industry equals   To provide the production, households of the -th industry form a resource supply whose value is ,  If  is a taxation vector [2], we suppose that only part of new produced value  is used to produce final consumption goods, goods to extend the production and goods for export, meanwhile a part  of value made by the -th industry is used for social consumption, renewal of fixed assets, capitalization, infrastructure, public utilities and so on.

We suppose that at the market of goods of final consumption, households of the -th industry form a demand proportional to value of sold resources and part of the industry deductions to consume the final consumption goods, the acquisition of fixed assets, capitalization, infrastructure, i. e.,

,

At rest, at the state’s market, a foreign trade agent forms goods supply  import vector, forming at the same time the demand for goods produced in the state  export vector.

Then the equilibrium price vector is determined by the condition that the demand does not exceed the supply

Or

             (29)

The next Theorem gives sufficient conditions for existence of economic equilibrium.

Theorem 9. Suppose that the non-negative vector  solves the set of inequalities

,  (30)

 ,  (31)

and it is such that the Frobenius number of the matrix equals one, where  is non-empty subset of  If  is such non-negative solution to the set of equations

                    (32)

that

,  

then  is an equilibrium price vector. If  is empty subset, then in this case the demand equals supply.

The Proof of the Theorem is evident one. In fact, the vector , where belongs to the interior of the cone generated by vector-columns of the matrix  where    as the equality  holds where   . If the rank of the matrix  equals then according to the Theorem 6.1.3 [2] there exists the set of such  linearly independent non-negative solutions  to the set of equations  with respect to the vector  that arbitrary non-negative solution  to this set of equations can be expressed in the form  where  .

Therefore, the set of equations (30) has non-negative solution. And if it is such that inequalities (31) hold and the spectral radius of the matrix  equals one, then there exists non-zero price vector solving the set of equations (32) which is an equilibrium price vector. Let us note that components of equilibrium vector  whose indices belong to the set  vanish.

It is just the quality of equilibrium that determines how close is economy to recession. Multiplying by  the -th inequality and introducing notations ,       we can rewrite (29) in value terms as

            (33)

Definition 4. We say that economy described aggregately is in an equilibrium state if inequalities (33) hold.

4. The Application to the Study of European Economies

In this Section, we apply the model explored in the previous Sections to the study of European economies. It is known that Ukrainian economy in 2010 was in recession. Below, we use the statistical data for such European countries as U K, Germany, Greece, Russia, and Ukraine to identify development trends of these countries. In contrast to [8], where the main parameters of the model are the macroeconomic indicators, namely, gross domestic product, household investment, consumption, and the recession is explained by the technological shock, we describe the recession phenomenon on the base on an equilibrium state quality accounting for the structure of production, consumption, investment, and price structure. In a recession, exchange mechanism breaking occurs manifested in the fact that in equilibrium the demand for goods, for which aggregate demand is less than supply, completely vanishes. Because of this, there is practically no purchase of this commodity group. The equilibrium prices for such a group of commodities can fall arbitrarily low. Devaluation of the national currency, the increase in unemployment, devaluation of deposits, and asset price fall is the result of all that. Let us denote demand vector by , where

and the supply vector by , where  Then the vector of lacking demand can be written in the form 

Definition 5. The -th industry are said to create recession, if 

We present calculation results for UK, Germany, Greece, Russia, and Ukraine in the form of vertically ordered histograms. We numbered industries upwards, putting right components of the vector

, and left such components of the vector for which

To get an idea, how much a country is close to a recession we use quantitative characteristic for each country

being the ratio of total demand lacking to its gross domestic product. The calculations we have carried out show

U K Germany Greece Russia Ukraine
Figure 1. Comparing industries’ production and demand lacking

Table 1. Industries of U K, Germany, Greece, and Russia.

1 Agriculture, Hunting, Forestry and Fishing
2 Mining and Quarrying
3 Food, Beverages and Tobacco
4 Textiles and Textile Products
5 Leather, Leather and Footwear
6 Wood and Products of Wood and Cork
7 Pulp, Paper, Paper, Printing and Publishing
8 Coke, Refined Petroleum and Nuclear Fuel
9 Chemicals and Chemical Products
10 Rubber and Plastics
11 Other Nonmetallic Mineral
12 Basic Metals and Fabricated Metal
13 Machinery, Nec
14 Electrical and Optical Equipment
15 Transport Equipment
16 Manufacturing, Nec; Recycling
17 Electricity, Gas and Water Supply
18 Construction
19 Sale, Maintenance and Repair of Motor Vehicles and Motorcycles; Retail Sale of Fuel
20 Wholesale Trade and Commission Trade, Except of Motor Vehicles and Motorcycles
21 Retail Trade, Except of Motor Vehicles and Motorcycles; Repair of Household Goods
22 Hotels and Restaurants
23 Inland Transport
24 Water Transport
25 Air Transport
26 Other Supporting and Auxiliary Transport Activities; Activities of Travel Agencies
27 Post and Telecommunications
28 Financial Intermediation
29 Real Estate Activities
30 Renting of M&Eq and Other Business Activities
31 Public Admin and Defence; Compulsory Social Security
32 Education
33 Health and Social Work
34 Other Community, Social and Personal Services

Table 2. R-coeff (Total Demand Reduction /Total Added Value).

U K 0.21
Germany 0.34
Greece 0.30
Russia 0.23
Ukraine 0.49

Table 3. The 4 Most Sensitive Industries.

U K

Demand Reduction Gross Output Import Export Number Name
52134 74188.45 57210.3 38142.76 2 Mining and Quarrying
1644.7 1674.369 1047.59 1508.7 5 Leather, Leather and Footwear
60014.8 70487.14 35400.1 64208.2 9 Chemicals and Chemical Products
59868 59072.3 41129.4 51231.69 14 Electrical and Optical Equipment

Germany

Demand Reduction Gross Output Import Export Number Name
30607 13612.1 28372.38 6844.48 2 Mining and Quarrying
22445.23 28886. 8585.4 28588.85 4 Textiles and Textile Products
3246.42 3833.98 1139.74 4274.92 5 Leather, Leather and Footwear
181654.1 219533.0 98310.1 185001 9 Chemicals and Chemical Products

Greece

Demand Reduction Gross Output Import Export Number Name
4402.04 1942.37 7299.15 121.32 2 Mining and Quarrying
1032.09 4698.79 5758.15 1520.0 9 Chemicals and Chemical Products
1715.70 3360.40 345.23 142.8 16 Manufacturing, Nec; Recycling
2395.31 3201.1 4906.9 1878.57 26 Other Supporting and Auxiliary Transport Activities; Activities of Travel Agencies

Russia

Demand Reduction Gross Output Import Export Number Name
143797.3 263447.40 858.82 167488.62 2 Mining and Quarrying
26971.37 67295.36 13469.93 22882.51 9 Chemicals and Chemical Products
53216. 154878.18 9478.2 39146.53 12 Basic Metals and Fabricated Metal
26275.96 82260.89 35177.19 2550.97 15 Transport Equipment

Ukraine

Demand Reduction Gross Output Import Export Number Name
86253.89 28986 109550 532 5 Extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas
38262.22 63386 11270 24554 6 Mining of quarrying, except of energy producing materials
21976.3 30038 809 3998 10 Manufacture of coke oven products; processing of nuclear fuel
199016.7 294920 880 428 22 Trade; repair of motor vehicles, household appliances and personal demand items

Table 4. The 4 Most Significant Contributing Industries.

U K

Demand Reduction Gross Output Import Export Number Name
52134 74188.45 57210.3 38142.76 2 Mining and Quarrying
60014.8 70487.14 35400.1 64208.2 9 Chemicals and Chemical Products
59868 59072.3 41129.4 51231.69 14 Electrical and Optical Equipment
63933.46 122624.0 35379.67 84809.0 15 Transport Equipment

Germany

Demand Reduction Gross Output Import Export Number Name
181654.1 219533.0 98310.1 185001 9 Chemicals and Chemical Products
149993.28 376482.57 141124.87 167674.80 12 Basic Metals and Fabricated Metal
174238.3 296697.7 104912.26 205065.4 14 Electrical and Optical Equipment
212400.4 526518.06 75289.56 312487.9 15 Transport Equipment

Greece

Demand Reduction Gross Output Import Export Number Name
12910.99 31153.14 8.34 11.09 22  
20263.99 40143.42 185.68 145.2 31 Public Admin and Defence; Compulsory Social Security
10283.52 20300.0 59.17 55.8 32 Education
10157.28 20687.45 69.66 86.95 33 Health and Social Work

Russia

Demand Reduction Gross Output Import Export Number Name
143797.3 263447.40 858.82 167488.62 2 Mining and Quarrying
53216. 154878.18 9478.2 39146.53 12 Basic Metals and Fabricated Metal
39594.2 325992.07 3854.12 76542.9 20 Wholesale Trade and Commission Trade, Except of Motor Vehicles and Motorcycles
33865. 140558.29 4319.30 66208.79 23 Inland Transport

Ukraine

Demand Reduction Gross Output Import Export Number Name
86253.89 28986 109550 532 5 Extraction of crude petroleum and natural  gas
38262.22 63386 11270 24554 6 Mining of quarrying, except of energy producing materials
78621.4 251401 39995 143201 14  
199016.7 294920 880 428 22 Trade; repair of motor vehicles, household appliances and personal demand items

Table 5. Ukrainian Industries.

1 Agriculture, hunting and related service activities
2 Forestry, logging and related service activities
3 Fishing, fish farming and related service activities
4 Mining of coal and lignite; extraction of  peat; mining of uranium and thorium ores
5 Extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas
6 Mining of quarrying, except of energy producing materials
7 Manufacture of food products, beverages and tobacco
8 Manufacture of textiles and textile products; manufacture of wearing apparel; dressing and dyeing of fur
9 Manufacture of wood and wood products; manufacture of pulp, paper and paper products; publishing and printing
10 Manufacture of coke oven products; processing of nuclear fuel
11 Manufacture of refined petroleum products
12 Manufacture of chemicals and chemical products; manufacture of rubber and plastic products
13 Manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products
14 Manufacture of basic metals and fabricated metal products
15 Manufacture of machinery and equipment
16 Manufacturing n.e.c.
17 Production and distribution of electricity
18 Manufacture of gas; distribution of gaseous fuels through mains
19 Steam and hot water supply
20 Collection, purification and distribution of water
21 Construction
22 Trade; repair of motor vehicles, household appliances and personal demand items
23 Activity of hotels and restaurants
24 Activity of transport
25 Post and telecommunications
26 Financial activity
27 Real estate activities
28 Renting of machinery and equipment without operator and of personal and household goods
29 Computer and related activities
30 Research and development
31 Other business activities
32 Public administration
33 Education
34 Health care and provision of social aid
35 Sewage and refuse disposal, sanitation and similar activities
36 Activities of membership organizations n.e.c.
37 Recreational, cultural and sporting activities
38 Other service activities

Comparative analysis of the dynamic changes in a number of economies of European countries shows a clear tendency to recession manifestations in 2011. However, the features of their specific structures, especially focusing on strong export potential, often conceal recession pulses generated within national economies. For the quantitative comparison of recession trends in the economies of the European countries, it is reasonable to introduce the ratio of the demand decrease to wholesale national product.

Table 6. 2010 Ukrainian economy features.

Industries Decline G D P Import
Forestry + 642 5 086  
Coal + 26 585 50 706 3 512
Hydrocarbon 86 254 28 986 109 950
Minerals 38 262 63 386 11 270
Wood + 11 304 51 454 16 379
Coke + 21 976 30 038 809
Chemistry + 23 072 224 366 110 223
Metallurgy 78 621 251 401 39 995
Nonmetal mineral prods 22 931 46 023 9 287
Electricity 19 917 73 520 48
Gas + 1 411 7 066 2
Trade + 199 020 294 920 880
Transport 24 607 170 415 2
Real estate 1 089 93 275 1 205

Although one should well understand that the scale invariance can not be here due to the structural differences of various economies, as well as lack of linear dependencies between intensive and extensive characteristics of economies, this option can serve as a quality characteristic of economic efficiency and stability of the system mainly as the result of economic management quality.

Quantitative analysis based on the formula (33) and the input-output balance [9-13] gave the following results. Ukraine's economy in 2010 was not in a state of equilibrium. In what follows, we give a drop in demand compared to the supply in millions of hryvnia (UAH), without specifying them near the numbers. Demand in value terms (millions UAH) fell compared to the supply in 14 industries of the Ukrainian economy.

Thus, calculations on statistical data ground confirm that the Ukrainian economy in 2010 was in a deep recession due to falling demand for the main products. Abnormal drop in demand for gas production is due to the high import prices for this product. An important indicator of the fact that Ukraine's economy is in a recession is a significant demand decline in trade.

5. Conclusions

In the paper, we have proved the Theorems describing the structure of economic equilibrium states in the model of the exchange economy. For a given structure of demand vectors, we have studied the structure of property vectors under which given price vector is equilibrium one. We introduced the important notion of equivalent property distribution which was the ground for the proof that at the state of economic equilibrium there is such equivalent property distribution for which degeneracy multiplicity of equilibrium state is not less than the value declared in the Theorem 3.

In the Theorem 6, we described the structure of equilibrium states for which the demand for some group of goods is strictly less than the supply and which quantitatively characterized by decreasing real value of national currency. If the group of goods for which aggregate demand is strictly less than the supply becomes critical one, then national currency devalues, unemployment increases, bank deposits devalue, and asset values fall. Just this equilibrium state is the recession state.

In Theorems 7 and 8, we gave sufficient conditions for equilibrium existence at which the demand equals the supply. In the Theorem 9, we adapted the model of the state economy with production to the model considered containing sufficient conditions for equilibrium economy. In the last Section, we apply this model to analyze some European countries’ economies.

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