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This paper proposes a novel derivation of the Hodrick-Prescott, Department of Economics (HP) minimisation problem which leads to a generalisation of the Hodrick-Prescott filter. The main result is the development of a new filter to extract a localised maximum likelihood estimate of the cycle...

This paper proposes a novel derivation of the Hodrick-Prescott (HP) minimization problem which leads to a generalization of the Hodrick-Prescott filter. The main result is the development of a new filter to extract a localized maximum-likelihood estimate of the cycle from a series. This new...