Hamilton_table_2: Hamilton_table_2

In neverhpfilter: An Alternative to the Hodrick-Prescott Filter

Description

Standard deviation of cyclical component and correlation with cyclical component of GDP for assorted macroeconomic series.

Usage

data("Hamilton_table_2")

Format

A data.frame containing 13 economic time series observations of 5 variables.

• cycle.sd Standard deviation of the cycle component, computed with function 'yth_filter(x, output = "cycle")'

• gdp.cor Correlation of 'cycle.sd' with the cycle.sd of 100 * log(RealGDP)

• random.sd Standard deviation of a Random-walk, computed by a rolling differencing the series by period 'h', the same passed to 'yth_filter(x, output = "cycle")' to compute 'cycle.sd'.

• gdp.rand.cor Correlation of 'random.sd' with the random.sd of 100 * log(RealGDP).

Notes

Filtered series were based on the full sample available for that variable, while correlations were calculated using the subsample of overlapping values for the two indicators. Note that the regression residuals lose the first 11 observations and the random-walk calculations lose the first 8 observations.

Source

"Why You Should Never Use the Hodrick-Prescott Filter", pg. 40 http://econweb.ucsd.edu/~jhamilto/hp.pdf

Examples

 print(Hamilton_table_2)

neverhpfilter documentation built on June 18, 2021, 5:09 p.m.