@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp1054, author={Schlicht, Ekkehart}, title={Estimating the Smoothing Parameter in the So-Called Hodrick-Prescott Filter}, year={2004}, month={Mar}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={1054}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1054}, abstract={This note gives a fairly complete statistical description of the Hodrick-Prescott Filter (1997) which has been proposed in the context of my seasonal adjustment method (Schlicht 1981, 1984). A statistics estimator for the smoothing parameter is proposed that is asymptotically equivalent to the maximum-likelihood estimator and has a straightforward intuitive interpretation. The method is illustrated by an application and several simulations.}, keywords={time-varying coefficients;random walk;stat e-space models;Kalman-Bucy;Kalman filtering;Hodrick-Prescott filter;adaptive estimation;time-series;seasonal adjustment;trend}, }