Author : Alain Guay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Book Synopsis Do Mechanical Filters Provide a Good Approximation of Business Cycles? by : Alain Guay
Download or read book Do Mechanical Filters Provide a Good Approximation of Business Cycles? written by Alain Guay and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper, the authors examine how well the Hodrick-Prescott filter (HP) and the band-pass filter recently proposed by Baxter and King, 1995 (BK) extract the business-cycle component of macroeconomic time series. The authors assess these filters using two different definitions of the business-cycle component. First, they define that component to be fluctuations lasting no fewer than six and no more than 32 quarters; this is the BK definition of business-cycle frequencies. Second, they define the business-cycle component on the basis of a decomposition of the series into permanent and transitory components. A simulation study assesses how well these filters retrieve the cyclical component of a time series composed of a random walk and a transitory component. The authors also compare the cyclical component resulting from the application of the HP and BK filters with those obtained with the detrending methods proposed by Watson (1986) and Cochrane (1994) for United States output. Alternative methods are proposed to identify the business-cycle component.
