Baigiamojo darbo tikslas - identifikavus egzistuojančių ekonomikos ciklo posūkio taškų prognozavimo metodų silpnybes bei nustačius metodų tobulinimo kryptis, pateikti metodą, kuris bet dalinai pašalintų įvardintus trūkumus ir jį patikrinti. Teorinės darbo dalies tikslas –...

In this paper we present two new composite leading indicators of economicactivity in Germany estimated using a dynamic factor model with and withoutregime switching. The obtained optimal inferences of business cycle turningpoints indicate that the two-state regime switching procedure leads to...

We propose to date and analyze the financial cycle using the Maximum Overlap Discrete Wavelet Transform (MODWT). Our presentation points out limitations of the methods derived from the classical business cycle literature, while stressing their connection with wavelet analysis. The fundamental...