IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/fip/fedlwp/2007-054.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Comment on Harding and Pagan 'The econometric analysis of some constructed binary time series'

Author

Listed:
  • Michael J. Dueker

Abstract

This comment discusses Harding and Pagan's (2007) article that advocates modeling the NBER business cycle chronology as the outcome of the two-quarter rule. The comment shows that the two-quarter rule does not fare well as a description of the decision-making of the NBER with real-time data available at the time the NBER declared the turning points. In addition, it is not clear how generally one could posit tractable rules-such as the two-quarter rule-for other constructed binary time series, such as stock market booms and busts. As an alternative to modeling the NBER chronology per se, this comment suggests a modified Qual VAR that includes autoregressive dynamics in the latent business cycle index. Out-of-sample forecast results from this model look promising with real-time data without the econometric shortcomings highlighted in Harding and Pagan's critique of the literature to date.

Suggested Citation

  • Michael J. Dueker, 2007. "Comment on Harding and Pagan 'The econometric analysis of some constructed binary time series'," Working Papers 2007-054, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:fedlwp:2007-054
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Business cycles; time series analysis;

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:fip:fedlwp:2007-054. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Anna Oates (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/frbslus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.