The Finnish Journal of Business Economics 4/1985, 383-410.
The purpose of this paper is to present a procedure for improving
growth-rate estimates of the firm against cyclical fluctuations and
short time series. The procedure is to decrease the dispersion
(standard error) of growth estimates, i.e. make the confidence
intervals narrower. Second, the procedure is to alleviate the
declination in growth estimates derived from time series where the
length of time series does not agree with the length (or multiple
legth) of the underlying cycle.
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