MCMC Estimation of Extended Hodrick-Prescott (HP) Filtering Models

Wolfgang Polasek

DANUBE: Law and Economics Review, 2012, issue 1, 25-52

Abstract: The Hodrick-Prescott (HP) method was originally developed to smooth time series, i.e. to get a smooth (long-term) component. We show that the HP smoother can be viewed as a Bayesian linear model with a strong prior for the smoothness component. Extending this Bayesian approach in a linear model set-up is possible with a conjugate and a nonconjugate model using MCMC. The Bayesian HP smoothing model is also extended to a spatial smoothing model. We have to define spatial neighbors for each observation and we can in a similar way use a smoothness prior as for the HP filter in time series. The new smoothing approaches are applied to the (textbook) airline passenger data for time series and to the problem of smoothing spatial regional data. This new approach can be used for a new class of model-based smoothers for time series and spatial models.

Keywords: Hodrick-Prescott (HP) Smoothers; Spatial Econometrics; MCMCEstimation; Airline Passenger Time Series; Spatial Smoothing of Regional Data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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