In this paper, we study the stability of the zero equilibria of the following systems of difference equations:
xn+1=axn+byne−xn,yn+1=cyn+dxne−yn
and
xn+1=ayn+bxne−yn,yn+1=cxn+dyne−xn
where a, b, c and d are positive constants and the initial conditions x0 and y0 are positive numbers. We study the stability of those systems in the special case when one of the eigenvalues has absolute value equal to 1 and the other eigenvalue has absolute value less than 1, using centre manifold theory. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.