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SEASONALITY IN ECONOMIC MODELS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2004

BJARNE BRENDSTRUP ,
SVEND HYLLEBERG ,
MORTEN ØRREGAARD NIELSEN ,
LARS SKIPPER  and
LARS STENTOFT
BJARNE BRENDSTRUP
Affiliation:
University of Aarhus
SVEND HYLLEBERG
Affiliation:
University of Aarhus
MORTEN ØRREGAARD NIELSEN
Affiliation:
University of Aarhus
LARS SKIPPER
Affiliation:
University of Aarhus
LARS STENTOFT
Affiliation:
University of Aarhus
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Abstract

Seasonality has been a major research area in economics for several decades. The paper assesses the recent development in the literature on the treatment of seasonality in economics, and divides it into three interrelated groups. The first group, pure noise models, consists of methods based on the view that seasonality is noise contaminating the data or, more correctly, contaminating the information of interest for the economists. The second group, time-series models, treats seasonality as a more integrated part of the modeling strategy, with the choice of model being data driven. The third group, economic models of seasonality, introduces economic theory, that is, optimizing behavior, into the modeling of seasonality.

Keywords

SeasonalityEconomic Models
Type
MD SURVEY
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Macroeconomic Dynamics , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , June 2004 , pp. 362 - 394
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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