The durations of recession and prosperity: Does their distribution follow a power or an exponential law?

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 339, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 548-558

  Ausloos, Marcel ^a   Miśkiewicz, Janusz ^a,b   Sanglier, Michèle ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b WROC AW UNIVERSITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Econophysics; Exponential law; Power law; Prosperity; Recession; Time Series analysis

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; FREQUENCIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ECONOPHYSICS; EXPONENTIAL LAW; POWER LAW; PROSPERITY; RECESSION;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 2942587090     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2004.03.005     Document Type: Article

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