Wavelet
Subtitle: a new tool for business cycle analysis
By: by Sharif Md. Raihan, Yi Wen, and Bing Zeng.
Contributors: Wen, Yi.; Zeng, Bing.; Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
Series: Working paper ;; 2005-050A; Working paper (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis : Online) ;; 2005-050A.
Publisher: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Published: 2005
Place of publication: [St. Louis, Mo.]
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Business cycles.; Time-series analysis.; Wavelets (Mathematics)
Description: "One basic problem in business-cycle studies is how to deal with nonstationary time series.  The market economy is an evolutionary system.  Economic time series therefore contain stochastic components that are necessarily time dependent.  Traditional methods of business cycle analysis, such as the correlation analysis and the spectral analysis, cannot capture such historical information because they do not take the time-varying characteristics of the business cycles into consideration.  In this paper, we introduce and apply a new technique to the studies of the business cycle: the wavelet-based time-frequency analysis that has recently been developed in the field of signal processing.  This new method allows us to characterize and understand not only the timing of shocks that trigger the business cycle, but also situations where the frequency of the business cycle shifts in time.  Our empirical analyses show that 1973 marks a new era for the evolution of the business cycle"--Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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