The durations of recession and prosperity: does their distribution follow a power or an exponential law?
arXiv:cond-mat/0403143 · doi:10.1016/j.physa.2004.03.005
Abstract
Following findings by Ormerod and Mounfield, Wright rises the problem whether a power or an exponential law describes the distribution of occurrences of economic recession periods. In order to clarify the controversy a different set of GDP data is hereby examined. The conclusion about a power law distribution of recession periods seems better though the matter is not entirely settled. The case of prosperity duration is also studied and is found to follow a power law. Universal but also non universal features between recession and prosperity cases are emphasized. Considering that the economy is basically a bistable (recession/prosperity) system we may derive a characteristic (de)stabilisation time.
8 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Physica A
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