期刊名称:Central European Journal of Economic Modelling and Econometrics
印刷版ISSN:2080-0886
电子版ISSN:2080-119X
出版年度:2013
期号:3
页码:85-102
语种:English
出版社:Polska Akademia Nauk
摘要:This article aims at constructing a new method for testing the statistical significance of seasonal fluctuations for non-stationary processes. The constructed test is based on a method of subsampling and on the spectral theory of Almost Periodically Correlated (APC) time series. In the article we consider an equation of a nonstationary process, containing a component which includes seasonal fluctuations and business cycle fluctuations, both described by an almost periodic function. We build subsampling test justifying the significance of frequencies obtained from the Fourier representation of the unconditional expectation of the process. The empirical usefulness of the constructed test is examined for selected macroeconomic data. The article studies survey indicators of economic climate in industry, retail trade and consumption for European countries.