Working Paper
Seasonal production smoothing
Abstract: Empirical tests of the production-smoothing hypothesis have yielded mixed results. In this paper, Donald Allen looks for, and finds evidence of, seasonal production smoothing in 15 out of 25 manufacturing series and 8 out of 10 retail series, using detrended seasonally unadjusted data. The equivalent test using seasonally adjusted data were negative for all 35 series. The results suggest that seasonally adjusted data obscure short-term production-smoothing.
https://doi.org/10.20955/wp.1999.004
Status: Published in Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, September/October 1999, 81(5), pp. 21-40
Access Documents
File(s):
File format is application/pdf
https://s3.amazonaws.com/real.stlouisfed.org/wp/1999/1999-004.pdf
Description: Full text
Authors
Bibliographic Information
Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Part of Series: Working Papers
Publication Date: 1999
Number: 1999-004