Business Cycle Estimation with High-Pass and Band-Pass Local Polynomial Regression

Filters constructed on the basis of standard local polynomial regression (LPR) methods have been used in the literature to estimate the business cycle. We provide a frequency domain interpretation of the contrast filter obtained by the difference of a series and its long-run LPR component and show t...

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Main Author: Luis J. Álvarez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-01-01
Series:Econometrics
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2225-1146/5/1/1