Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/105409 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Citation: 
[Journal:] Contemporary Economics [ISSN:] 2084-0845 [Volume:] 6 [Issue:] 2 [Publisher:] Vizja Press & IT [Place:] Warsaw [Year:] 2012 [Pages:] 20-25
Publisher: 
Vizja Press & IT, Warsaw
Abstract: 
We study the annual growth rates of six macroeconomic variables: public debt, public health expenditures, exports of goods, government consumption expenditures, total exports of goods and services, and total imports of goods and services. For each variable, we find (i) that the distribution of the growth rate residuals approximately follows a double exponential (Laplace) distribution and (ii) that the standard deviation of growth rate residuals scales according to the size of the variable as a power law, with a scaling exponent similar to the scaling exponent found for GDP [Economics Letters 60, 335 (1998)]. We hypothesise that the volatility scaling we find for these GDP constituents causes the volatility scaling found in GDP data.
Subjects: 
composite index
complex phenomena
dynamics
JEL: 
C1
O1
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Document Type: 
Article

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