%0 Journal Article
%T On the global attractivity and oscillations in a class of second order difference equations from macroeconomics
%A Hassan A. El-Morshedy
%J Mathematics
%D 2010
%I arXiv
%X New global attractivity criteria are obtained for the second order difference equation \[ x_{n+1}=cx_{n}+f(x_{n}-x_{n-1}),\quad n=1, 2, ... \] via a Lyapunov-like method. Some of these results are sharp and support recent related conjectures. Also, a necessary and sufficient condition for the oscillation of this equation is obtained using comparison with a second order linear difference equation with positive coefficients.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.3090v1