Metz, Rainer; Bismans, Francis; Damaso, Eulalia - In: Revue française d'économie Volume XXIV (2009) 4, pp. 93-133
The answer to the question, whether long waves exist or not depends mainly on the statistical methods used for analysis. Since the seminal work of Kondratieff in the 1920th these methods underwent significant changes. The fundamental critic against the traditional approaches in the 1970th lead...