Estimation of Sparsity-Induced Weak Factor Models
稀疏性诱导的弱因子模型估计
This article investigates estimation of sparsity-induced weak factor (sWF) models, with large cross-sectional and time-series dimensions (N and T, respectively). It assumes that the kth largest eigenvalue of a data covariance matrix grows proportionally to Nαk with unknown exponents 0<αk≤1 for k=1,…,r. Employing the same rotation of the principal components (PC) estimator, the growth rate αk is linked to the degree of sparsity of kth factor loadings. This is much weaker than…