The changing economic regimes and expected time to recover of the peripheral countries under the euro: A nonparametric approach

A nonparametric method is presented in order to estimate the expected time to cross a threshold on the basis of two assumptions, a Markovian property and stationarity. An empirical application is provided, using this method to investigate the dynamics of the GDP of 16 countries of the European Union for a long period, 1962–2016, and to detect the patterns of growth rates and expected mean reversion time after a negative, i.e a recession, or a...