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Dynamic Regression and Filtered Data Series: A Laplace Approximation to the Effects of Filtering in Small Samples

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Eric Ghysels  and
Offer Lieberman
Eric Ghysels
Affiliation:
Université de Montréal and Cirano
Offer Lieberman
Affiliation:
Technion
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Abstract

It is common for an applied researcher to use filtered data, like seasonally adjusted series, for instance, to estimate the parameters of a dynamic regression model. In this paper, we study the effect of (linear) filters on the distribution of parameters of a dynamic regression model with a lagged dependent variable and a set of exogenous regressors. So far, only asymptotic results are available. Our main interest is to investigate the effect of filtering on the small sample bias and mean squared error. In general, these results entail a numerical integration of derivatives of the joint moment generating function of two quadratic forms in normal variables. The computation of these integrals is quite involved. However, we take advantage of the Laplace approximations to the bias and mean squared error, which substantially reduce the computational burden, as they yield relatively simple analytic expressions. We obtain analytic formulae for approximating the effect of filtering on the finite sample bias and mean squared error. We evaluate the adequacy of the approximations by comparison with Monte Carlo simulations, using the Census X-11 filter as a specific example

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Research Article
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Econometric Theory , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , August 1996 , pp. 432 - 457
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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