Will the US economy recover in 2010? A minimal spanning tree study

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 390, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2020-2050

  Zhang, Yiting ^a   Lee, Gladys Hui Ting ^a   Wong, Jian Cheng ^a   Kok, Jun Liang ^a   Prusty, Manamohan ^a   Cheong, Siew Ann ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Clustering; Cross correlations; Economic recovery; Financial crisis; Financial time series; Macroeconomic cycle; Minimal spanning tree; Planar maximally filtered graph; Segmentation; US economic sectors

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FINANCE; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; RECOVERY; STARS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CLUSTERING; CROSS CORRELATIONS; ECONOMIC RECOVERY; ECONOMIC SECTORS; FINANCIAL CRISIS; FINANCIAL TIME SERIES; MACROECONOMIC CYCLE; MINIMAL SPANNING TREE; PLANAR MAXIMALLY FILTERED GRAPH;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 79953319566     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2011.01.020     Document Type: Article

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