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...

This Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix report on Australia was prepared by a staff team of the International Monetary Fund as backgrownd documentation for the periodic consultation with Australia. The paper presents details about consumption; labour market; monetary policy; the impact of...

Tunisia's solid growth performance continued in 1998 (5 percent) despite a contraction of agricultural production. A Market rise in the rate of investmment was accompained by a commensurate increase in the saving rate, and the external current account deficit widened only slightly to 3.4 percent...

This Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix report on Australia was prep ared by a staff team of the International Monetary Fund as backgrownd docu mentation for the periodic consultation with United States. The paper presents details about: Measures of potential output; wage and price...

This Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix report on Australia was prepared by a staff team of the International Monetary Fund as backgrownd documentation for the periodic consultation with Canada. The paper presents details about: The behavior of Canadian Dollar; Inflation and the Nature of...

This Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix report on Australia was prepared by a staff team of the International Monetary Fund as backgrownd documentation for the periodic consultation with New Zealand. The Paper presents details about : Recent Economic Development; household savings;...