Simple Patterns in Fluctuations of Time Series of Economic Interest.

Time series corresponding to nominal exchange rates between the US dollar and Argentina, Brazil and European Economic Community currencies; different financial indexes as the Industrial Dow Jones, the British Footsie, the German DAX Composite, the Australian Share Price and the Nikkei Cash and also different Argentine local tax revenues, are analyzed looking for the appearance of simple patterns and the possible definition of forecast evaluators. In every case, the statistical fractal dimensions are obtained from the behavior of the corresponding variance of increments at a given lag. The detrended fluctuation analysis of the data in terms of the corresponding exponent in the resulting power law is carried out. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]