The main objective behind the production of seasonally adjusted time series is to give an easy access to a common time series data set purged of what is considered seasonal noise. Although the application of officially seasonally adjusted data may have the advantage of being cost saving it may...

Seasonality has been a major research area in economics for several decades. The paper asses the recent development in the literature on the treatment of seasonality in economics, and divides it into three interrelated groups. The first group, the Pure Noise Model, consists of methods based on...

Seasonality has been a major research area in economics for several decades. The paper assesses the recent development in the literature on the treatment of seasonality in economics, and divides it into three interrelated groups. The first group, Pure Noise Models, consists of methods based on...