Measuring Business Cycles Approximate Band-Pass Filters for Economic Time Series / Marianne Baxter, Robert G. King.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baxter, Marianne.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

King, Robert G.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w5022.

NBER working paper series no. w5022

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1995.

Summary:

This paper develops a set of approximate band-pass filters designed for use in a wide range of economic applications. In particular, we design and implement a specific band-pass filter which isolates business-cycle fluctuations in macroeconomic time series. This filter was designed to isolate fluctuations in the data which persist for periods of two through eight years. This filter also 'detrends' the data, in the sense that it will render stationary time series that are integrated of order two or less, or that contain deterministic time trends. We apply our filter to several of the key macroeconomic time series, and describe the picture of the U.S. postwar business cycle that emerges from our analysis. We also provide detailed comparisons with several alternative detrending methods.

Notes:

Print version record

February 1995.