Estimation of characteristics-based quantile factor models
基于个体特征的分位数因子模型估计
This paper studies the estimation of characteristics-based quantile factor models where the factor loadings are unknown functions of observed individual characteristics, and the idiosyncratic error terms are subject to conditional quantile restrictions. We propose a three-stage estimation procedure that is easy to implement and has nice properties. The convergence rates, the limiting distributions of the estimated factors and loading functions, plus a consistent selection…