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Band-limited component estimation in time-limited economic series

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  • Laura Barbieri
  • Mario Faliva
  • Maria Grazia Zoia

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This paper tackles the issue of economic time-series modeling from a joint time and frequency-domain standpoint, with the objective of estimating the latent trend-cycle component. Since time-series records are data strings over a finite time span, they read as samples of contiguous data drawn from realizations of stochastic processes aligned with the time arrow. This accounts for the interpretation of time series as time-limited signals. Economic time series (up to a disturbance term) result from latent components known as trend, cycle, and seasonality, whose generating stochastic processes are harmonizable on a finite average-power argument. In addition, since trend is associated with long-run regular movements, and cycle with medium-term economic fluctuation, both of these turn out to be band-limited components. Recognizing such a frequency-domain location permits a filter-based approach to component estimation. This is accomplished through a Toeplitz matrix operator with sinc functions as entries, mirroring the ideal low-pass filter impulse response. The notion of virtual transfer function is developed and its closed-form expression derived in order to evaluate the filter features. The paper is completed by applying this filter to quarterly data from Italian industrial production, thus shedding light on the performance of the estimation procedure.

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  • Laura Barbieri & Mario Faliva & Maria Grazia Zoia, 2013. "Band-limited component estimation in time-limited economic series," Journal of Applied Statistics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 40(9), pages 2009-2023, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:japsta:v:40:y:2013:i:9:p:2009-2023
    DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2013.801408
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