Trend-Cycle Decomposition: Implications from an Exact Structural Identification

37 Pages Posted: 19 Oct 2013

See all articles by Mardi H. Dungey

Mardi H. Dungey

University of Tasmania (deceased); Financial Research Network (FIRN) (deceased)

Jan P. A. M. Jacobs

University of Groningen - Faculty of Economics and Business

Jing Tian

University of Tasmania; Financial Research Network (FIRN)

Simon van Norden

HEC Montreal - Department of Finance; CIRANO; University of Montreal - Center for Interuniversity Research in Econometrics

Date Written: July 18, 2013

Abstract

A well-documented property of the Beveridge-Nelson trend-cycle decomposition is the perfect negative correlation between trend and cycle innovations. We show how this may be consistent with a structural model where trend shocks enter the cycle, or cycle shocks enter the trend and that identification restrictions are necessary to make this structural distinction. A reduced form unrestricted version such as Morley, Nelson and Zivot (2003) is compatible with either option, but cannot distinguish which is relevant. We discuss economic interpretations and implications using US real GDP data.

Keywords: trend-cycle decomposition, data revision, state-space form

JEL Classification: C22, C53, C82

Suggested Citation

Dungey, Mardi H. and Jacobs, Jan P.A.M. and Tian, Jing and van Norden, Simon, Trend-Cycle Decomposition: Implications from an Exact Structural Identification (July 18, 2013). CIRANO - Scientific Publications 2013s-23, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2342176 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2342176

Mardi H. Dungey

University of Tasmania (deceased)

Financial Research Network (FIRN) (deceased)

Jan P.A.M. Jacobs

University of Groningen - Faculty of Economics and Business ( email )

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Jing Tian

University of Tasmania ( email )

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