The paper reconsiders the Hodrick-Prescott filter and the issue of a suitable choice of its smoothing parameter λ for quarterly data. To this end stochastic processes generate artificial data with a known growth trend and cyclical component, and a battery of Monte Carlo experiments tests what...

In this paper, we introduce the simulated maximum likelihood method for identifying behavioral heuristics of heterogeneous agents in the baseline three-equation New Keynesian model. The method is extended to multivariate macroeconomic optimization problems, and the estimation procedure is...

This paper offers a simulation-based method for the estimation of heuristic switching in nonlinear macroeconomic models. Heuristic switching is an important feature of modeling strategy since it uses simple decision rules of boundedly rational heterogeneous agents. The simulation study shows...

A recent article by J.D. Hamilton from 2018 attracted a great deal of attention, not only because of its telling title, "Why you should never use the Hodrick- Prescott filter", but also because it offered an alternative approach to detrending, the Hamilton regression filter (HRF). His...

In this paper, we introduce the simulated maximum likelihood method for identifying behavioral heuristics of heterogeneous agents in the baseline three-equation New Keynesian model. The method is extended to multivariate macroeconomic optimization problems, and the estimation pro-cedure is...

This paper offers a simulation-based method for the estimation of heuristic switching in nonlinear macroeconomic models. Heuristic switching is an important feature of modeling strategy since it uses simple decision rules of boundedly rational heterogeneous agents. The simulation study shows...

Contrary to claims in studies on financial economics, a sparse database often obscures the identification of parameters in macroeconomic models. These identification problems originate from the poorly defined mapping between a structural model and reduced-form parameters. Hence, researchers rely...