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Time Series: Co-integration Series: Economic Forecasting; Time Series: General; Watson M W 1994 Vector autoregressions and co-integration. Time Series: Nonstationary Distributions and Unit In: Engle R F, McFadden D L (eds.) Handbook of Econo- Roots; Time Series: Seasonal Adjustment metrics Vol. IV. Elsevier, The Netherlands N. H. Chan Bibliography Banerjee A, Dolado J J, Galbraith J W, Hendry D F 1993 Co- Integration, Error Correction, and the Econometric Analysis of Non-stationary Data. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK Time Series: Cycles Box G E P, Tiao G C 1977 A canonical analysis of multiple time series. Biometrika 64: 355–65 Time series data in economics and other fields of social Chan N H, Tsay R S 1996 On the use of canonical correlation science often exhibit cyclical behavior. For example, analysis in testing common trends. In: Lee J C, Johnson W O, aggregate retail sales are high in November and Zellner A (eds.) 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Handbook of Econometrics, periodic function doesn’t capture the randomness in Vol. IV. Elsevier, Netherlands the series. Second, since several different periodicities Stock J H, Watson M W 1988 Testing for common trends. (seasonal, business cycle) are evident in the plot, Journal of the American Statistical Association 83: 1097–107 several periodic functions will be required. The next Tanaka K 1996 Time Series Analysis: Nonstationary and section presents a representation of a stochastic Noninertibel Distribution Theory. Wiley, New York process that has these ingredients. 15714 Time Series: Cycles Figure 1 Building permits in the USA 2. Representing Cyclical Behaior in Time Series: and troughs. Finally, the process is covariance station- l λ l σ# ω The Spectrum ary with E(Yt) 0 and k cos( k). Adding together several components like Eqn. 1 produces a more interesting stochastic process: 2.1 Spectral Representation of a Coariance Stationary Process n l α ω jδ ω Consider a sequence of scalar random variables Yt [ j cos( jt) j sin( jt)] (2) oY q where t l 0, p1, p2,…, and E(Y ) l µ, j=" t l λ t Co (YtYt−k) k. That is, assume that Yt is observed at regular intervals, like a week, a month, a year, etc. with E(α ) l E(δ ) l 0, for all j; E(α δ ) l 0, for all j, k; α α lj δ δ j l j k α# l δ# l Assume that the first and second moments of the E( j k) E( j k) 0, for j k; and E( j ) E( j ) µ λ σ# process do not depend on time, that is and k are time j . For this process, Yt is the sum of n different invariant. To simplify notation, assume that µ l 0. uncorrelated components, each corresponding to a To motivate the spectral representation of Y ,itis different frequency, and each with its own variance. t α ω jδ ω σ# useful to begin with a very special and simple stoch- (The variance of j cos( jt) j sin( jt)is j .) A l λ l n σ# ω astic process: calculation shows E(Yt) 0, k j=" j cos( jk), and the variance of Y is given by ar (Y ) l n σ#. l α ω jδ ω t t j=" j Yt cos( t) sin( t) (1) So far, this has all been special. That is, two very special processes have been constructed. However, a where α and δ are random variables with E(α) l E(δ) fundamental result (Crame! r 1942, Kolmorgorov 1940) l 0; E(αδ) l 0; and E(α#) l E(δ#) l σ#. While simple, shows that a generalization of this decomposition can this process has three attractive characteristics. First, be used to represent any covariance stationary process. it is periodic: since cos(aj2π) l cos(a) and sin (aj2π) The result, known as the ‘Spectral Representation l sin(a), then Y l Y for QjQ l 1, 2,… . So Y t+j#π/ω t t Theorem,’ says that if Yt is covariance stationary, then repeats itself with a period of 2π\ω. Second, the it can be represented as random components α and δ give Y a random amplitude (value of at its peak) and a random phase π π (value at t l 0). Thus, two realizations of Y will have l ω α ω j ω δ ω Yt & cos( t)d ( ) & sin( t)d ( ) different amplitudes and different timing of their peaks ! ! 15715 Time Series: Cycles where dα(ω) and dδ(ω) are zero mean random vari- The spectrum can be determining by inverting this ables that are mutually uncorrelated, uncorrelated relation: across frequency, and have variances that depend on frequency. Like the special example shown in Eqn. 2, _ ω l π −" λ −iωj this general representation decomposes Yt into a set of S( ) (2 ) je (5) strictly periodic components—each uncorrelated with j=−_ the others, and each with its own variance. For example, processes with important seasonal com- (To verify that Eqn. 5 is the inverse of Eqn. 4, use ponents will have large values of the components corresponding to the seasonal frequency, processes for π 1 π l 5 iωk 2 2 for k 0 6 & e dω l 3 7 (6) series with strong ‘business cycle’ components will 0 for k 0 have large variances at business cycle frequencies, etc. −π 4 8 Sometimes the spectral representation is written π −"o!π _ λ −iω(j−k) ωqlλ using complex numbers as: so that (2 ) −π j=−_ je d k.) π A simpler formula for the spectrum is Y l & eiωtdγ(ω) (3) t _ π − S(ω) l (2π)−"[λ j2 λ cos( jω)]. (7) N ! j where dγ(ω) l (1\ 2)[dα(ω)kidδ(ω)] for ω & 0 and j=" dγ(ω) l dγ(kω) for ω ! 0.