Bayes model averaging of cyclical decompositions in economic time series
2003-08-07
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A flexible decomposition of a time series into stochastic cycles under possible non-stationarity is specified, providing both a useful data analysis tool and a very wide model class. A Bayes procedure using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is introduced with a model averaging approach which explicitly deals with the uncertainty on the appropriate number of cycles. The convergence of the MCMC method is substantially accelerated through a convenient reparametrization based on a hierarchical structure of variances in a state space model. The model and corresponding inferential procedure are applied to simulated data and to economic time series like industrial production, unemployment and real exchange rates. We derive the implied posterior distributions of model parameters and some relevant functions thereof, shedding light on a wide range of key features of each economic time series.
- model averaging
- Markov Chain Monte Carlo
- state space models
- Fourier analysis
- time series decomposition
- model
- cycle
- parameter
- component
- probability
- frequency
- series
- spectrum
- sample
- number
- model probabilities
- model parameters
- time series
- density
- figure
- trend
- period
- variance
- uncertainty
- procedure
