The Hodrick--Prescott (HP) filter is widely used in the field of economics to estimate trends and cycles from time series data. For certain applications--such as deriving implied trend and cycle models and obtaining filter weights--it is desirable to express the frequency response of the HP as...

In this paper, we define and study a new block bootstrap variation, the "tapered" block bootstrap, that is applicable in the general case of approximately linear statistics, and constitutes an improvement over the original block bootstrap of Künsch (1989). The asymptotic validity, and the...