Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/87058 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 08-028/4
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
Unobserved components time series models decompose a time series into a trend, a season, a cycle, an irregular disturbance, and possibly other components. These models have been successfully applied to many economic time series. The standard assumption of a linear model, often appropriate after a logarithmic transformation of the data, facilitates estimation, testing, forecasting and interpretation. However, in some settings the linear-additive framework may be too restrictive. In this paper, we formulate a non-linear unobserved components time series model which allows interactions between the trend-cycle component and the seasonal component. The resulting model is cast into a non-linear state space form and estimated by the extended Kalman filter, adapted for models with diffuse initial conditions. We apply our model to UK travel data and US unemployment and production series, and show that it can capture increasing seasonal variation and cycle dependent seasonal fluctuations.
Subjects: 
Seasonal interaction
Unobserved components
Non-linear state space models
JEL: 
C13
C22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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