One of the most important objectives of the macroeconomic science is the comprehension of causes and consequences over the economic fluctuations. The statistical characterization of business cycles has been studied by many authors since the influential work by Hodrick and Prescott (1980)....

The paper presents stylized facts of Euroland's business cycle using aggregated data. The main results are: the determination of turning points in Euroland's business cycle is not very sensitive to the detrending method used, although the level of the recent output gap depends on it. Investment,...

The paper presents some stylized facts of Euroland's business cycle using aggregated data. The main results are: The determination of turning points in Euroland's business cycle is not very sensitive to the detrending method used, although the level of the recent output gap depends on it....

This article investigates the stylized facts of money and credit over the business cycles in nine Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries using quarterly data from 1960 to 2006, through the application of two main detrending methods. Our findings confirm the...

Organization theory is a paradoxical field of scientific inquiry. It has struggled for more than fifty years to develop a unified theory of organizational effectiveness under girded by a coherent set of assumptions, and it has thus far failed to produce one. Yet, by other standards it is...

Our paper documents a set of statistical properties of the monthly, weekly and dailyreturns for the most liquid 30 stocks traded on Bucharest Stock Exchange during 2007 - 2012 andalso for 3 important Romanian stock market indices. Our results confirm the presence of most thestylized facts...

There is a growing consensus that fundamental financial theory based on the assumption that markets are complete is not sustainable when financial markets become increasingly complex. Traditional models fail to capture many of the stylized facts and biases identified by recent financial...

The aim of this paper is to obtain some statistical properties about runs of daily returns of ISE30, ISE50 and ISE100 indices and compare these results with the empirical stylized facts of developed stock markets. In this manner, all time historical daily closing values of these indices are...