Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/89701 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 4577
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
In this paper we use the Hodrick-Prescott filter for analysing global temperature data. We are especially concerned with a reliable estimation of the trend component at the end of the data sample. To this end we employ time-varying values for the penalization parameter. The optimal values are derived by a comparison with an ideal filter. The method is applied to temperature data for the northern hemisphere from 1850 to 2012. The main result is that for the optimal specification of the flexible penalization the trend component of temperature is still increasing, possibly with a somewhat lower pace.
Subjects: 
climate change
global warming
trend
Hodrick-Prescott filter
flexible penalization
JEL: 
Q54
C22
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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