The Relationship between the Beveridge-Nelson Decomposition andUnobserved Component Models with Correlated Shocks

Kum Hwa Oh, Eric Zivot and Drew Creal
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Kum Hwa Oh: Bank of Korea
Eric Zivot: University of Washington

Working Papers from University of Washington, Department of Economics

Abstract: Many researchers believe that the Beveridge-Nelson decomposition leads to permanent and transitory components whose shocks are perfectly negatively correlated. Indeed, some even consider it to be a property of the decomposition. We demonstrate that the Beveridge-Nelson decomposition does not provide definitive information about the correlation between permanent and transitory shocks in an unobserved components model. Given an ARIMA model describing the evolution of U.S. real GDP, we show that there are many state space representations that generate the Beveridge-Nelson decomposition. These include unobserved components models with perfectly correlated shocks and partially correlated shocks. In our applications, the only knowledge we have about the correlation is that it lies in a restricted interval that does not include zero. Although the filtered estimates of the trend and cycle are identical for models with different correlations, the observationally equivalent unobserved components models produce different smoothed estimates.

Date: 2006-07
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