Empirical results on the size distribution of business cycle phases

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 333, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 325-334

  Di Guilmi, Corrado ^a   Gaffeo, Edoardo ^b   Gallegati, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Business cycles; Predictability; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; INVARIANCE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

BUSINESS CYCLES; PREDICTABILITY;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 0347129584     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2003.10.022     Document Type: Article

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