主讲人：林蔚教授（对外经贸大学国际经贸学院）

主持人：杨程助理教授（辽宁大学李安民经济研究院）

嘉宾介绍：游宇教授（辽宁大学李安民经济研究院）

时间：2023年10月30日（周一）  14：00-15：30（北京时间）

地点：辽宁大学崇山校区五洲园一楼会议室

线上地址：腾讯会议：406-934-140

语言：中文/英文

摘要： 

In this paper, we propose a novel seasonal adjustment method that accommodates time series observed at mixed frequencies and possessing possibly multiple abrupt changes in seasonality. We assume that the observed series is a known linear transformation of an underlying high frequency series whose seasonal component can be represented as a matrix with a low rank SVD structure, and the nonseasonal component is difference stationary. The right and left singular vectors of the SVD correspond respectively to the seasonal patterns and their time-varying amplitudes. We propose a penalized optimization framework to estimate the seasonality where a penalty is defined to shrink towards zero the wavelet coefficients of the discrete wavelet transformation of the left singular vectors. A novel ADMM algorithm that can handle the non-smooth penalty and the manifold structure of the parameter space is developed for efficient computation.  Using both simulated and real data, we find that (i) when the seasonality is moderate or strong our proposed method performs well and correctly detects the underlying seasonality structure; and (ii) for single frequency time series, the performance of our proposed method compares well with those of the traditional X-12-ARIMA and SEATS methods, especially in the case when the seasonality is strong.

主讲人简介： 

林蔚，对外经济贸易大学国际经济贸易学院教授，主要研究领域包括计量经济学、季节调整和非参数方法。他在Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Applied Econometrics等国际学术期刊上发表学术论文数篇，主持两项国家自科基金。