What does horizontal comparative analysis mean?

Cross-SectionAnalysis, also called cross-section analysis and cross-section analysis. Horizontal analysis is a method to study the data of the same period by cross-sectional method, and to explore the correlation degree, relationship and change between social and economic phenomena and natural conditions in a specific period. Its characteristic is to discuss the changing trends and laws of objects and targets abstractly on the basis of horizontal connection, leaving aside the specific characteristics of various things, phenomena and processes. It studies the horizontal relationship and economic and social effects of the target object by means of various systems, logistics, games, decision-making and mathematics. With the development of modern knowledge, it has gradually spread to new theories of various disciplines, and new knowledge has been integrated into new analytical media, resulting in theoretical control methods, stable mechanism methods and stochastic process methods.

The content of this article comes from: The New Encyclopedia of Financial Law (Fifth Edition) edited by China Law Publishing House.