Detrending and business cycle facts: A user's guide

This note argues that it is hardly the case that the profession is fully aware that the application of di⁄erent filters to the data leads to di⁄erent outcomes and that we have enough evidence to claim that these di⁄erences are unimportant to evaluate the fit models to the data. ( 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. JEL classification: B41; E32