Business cycles and growth cycles should not be mixed or confused, as is unfortunately often the case in discussions of economic growth. This paper compares various approaches to time series decomposition for the analysis of business cycles and growth cycles as related but separate phenomena. We...

This paper develops semiparametric Bayesian methods for inference in dynamic linear panel data models, and applies them to longitudinal data on labor earnings from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. We focus on characterizing not only parameters related to conditional means and variances, but...