Entropies of negative incomes, Pareto-distributed loss, and financial crises.

Health monitoring of world economy is an important issue, especially in a time of profound economic difficulty world-wide. The most important aspect of health monitoring is to accurately predict economic downturns. To gain insights into how economic crises develop, we present two metrics, positive a...

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Main Authors: Jianbo Gao, Jing Hu, Xiang Mao, Mi Zhou, Brian Gurbaxani, Johnny Lin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3189013?pdf=render