Scaling the volatility of GDP growth rates

Economics Letters

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 335-341

  Canning, D ^a,b   Amaral, L A N ^d   Lee, Y ^c   Meyer, M ^c   Stanley, H E ^c  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

040; Country Size; E30; Network Models; Real Business Cycles; Scale Effects; Volatility

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032342550     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1765(98)00121-9     Document Type: Article

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