Patterns of macroeconomic indicators preceding the unemployment rise in Western Europe and the USA

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 423-435

  Keilis Borok, V I ^a,b   Soloviev, A A ^a   Allegre C B ^c   Sobolevskii, A N ^a,d   Intriligator, M D ^e  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

^d MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex system; Critical phenomenon; Macroeconomic indicators; Pattern recognition of infrequent events; Prediction; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HEURISTIC METHODS; INDICATORS (INSTRUMENTS); LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; PERSONNEL; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CRITICAL PHENOMENON; MACROECONOMIC INDICATORS; PATTERN RECOGNITION OF INFREQUENT EVENTS; PREDICTION; UNEMPLOYMENT;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 10044233718     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2004.08.005     Document Type: Article

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