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Information cascades and the distribution of economic recessions in capitalist economies

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  • Ormerod, Paul

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We consider in this paper the distribution of the cumulative size of recessions in 17 capitalist countries over the period 1871–1994, using data on annual percentage changes in real GDP. A recession is defined as a year in which GDP growth is negative, and the cumulative change is the change from peak to trough during a recession period. We examine both the whole sample and different partitions of the data.

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  • Ormerod, Paul, 2004. "Information cascades and the distribution of economic recessions in capitalist economies," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 341(C), pages 556-568.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:341:y:2004:i:c:p:556-568
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2004.04.109
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    1. Salvador Pueyo, 2013. "Is it a power law distribution? The case of economic contractions," Papers 1310.2567, arXiv.org.
    2. Yashkir, Olga & Yashkir, Yuriy, 2013. "Monitoring of Credit Risk through the Cycle: Risk Indicators," MPRA Paper 46402, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Wenzhi Zheng & Yuting Lou & Yu Chen, 2019. "On the Unsustainable Macroeconomy with Increasing Inequality of Firms Induced by Excessive Liquidity," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(11), pages 1-22, May.
    4. Chu, Zhuang & Yang, Biao & Ha, Chang Yong & Ahn, Kwangwon, 2018. "Modeling GDP fluctuations with agent-based model," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 503(C), pages 572-581.

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