Chapitre d'ouvrage: The difficulties associated with the appraisal of the determinacy properties of a three-dimensional system are circumvented by the introduction of a new geometrical argument. It brings about a complete typology of the eigenvalues moduli in discrete time three-dimensional dynamical systems and then provides a new apparatus for assessing from a geometrical standpoint the emergence of local bifurcations for parameterised economies. The argument is considered through the extensive characterisation of the stability properties of a benchmark model of inter-temporal economic analysis.