Measuring Business Cycles in Economic Time Series - Softcover

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1 Introduction and Brief Summary.- 2 A Brief Review of Applied Time Series Analysis.- 2.1 Some Basic Concepts.- 2.2 Stochastic Processes and Stationarity.- 2.3 Differencing.- 2.4 Linear Stationary Process, Wold Representation. and Auto-correlation Function.- 2.5 The Spectrum.- 2.6 Linear Filters and Their Squared Gain.- 3 ARIMA Models and Signal Extraction.- 3.1 ARIMA Models.- 3.2 Modeling Strategy, Diagnostics and Inference.- 3.2.1 Identification.- 3.2.2 Estimation and Diagnostics.- 3.2.3 Inference.- 3.2.4 A Particular Class of Models.- 3.3 Preadjustment.- 3.4 Unobserved Components and Signal Extraction.- 3.5 ARIMA-Model-Based Decomposition of a Time Series.- 3.6 Short-Term and Long-Term Trends.- 4 Detrending and the Hodrick-Prescott Filter.- 4.1 The Hodrick-Prescott Filter: Equivalent Representations.- 4.2 Basic Characteristics of the Hodrick-Prescott Filter.- 4.3 Some Criticisms and Discussion of the Hodrick-Prescott Filter.- 4.4 The Hodrick-Prescott Filter as a Wiener-Kolmogorov Filter.- 4.4.1 An Alternative Representation.- 4.4.2 Derivation of the Filter.- 4.4.3 The Algorithm.- 4.4.4 A Note on Computation.- 5 Some Basic Limitations of the Hodrick-Prescott Filter.- 5.1 Endpoint Estimation and Revisions.- 5.1.1 Preliminary Estimation and Revisions.- 5.1.2 An Example.- 5.2 Spurious Results.- 5.2.1 Spurious Crosscorrelation.- 5.2.2 Spurious Autocorrelation; Calibration.- 5.2.3 Spurious Periodic Cycle.- 5.3 Noisy Cyclical Signal.- 6 Improving the Hodrick-Prescott Filter.- 6.1 Reducing Revisions.- 6.2 Improving the Cyclical Signal.- 7 Hodrick-Prescott Filtering Within a Model-Based Approach.- 7.1 A Simple Model-Based Algorithm.- 7.2 A Complete Model-Based Method; Spuriousness Reconsidered.- 7.3 Some Comments on Model-Based Diagnostics and Inference.- 7.4 MMSE Estimation of the Cycle: A Paradox.- References.- Author Index.

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