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近似因子模型的秩正则化估计AI 解读

It is known that the common factors in a large panel of data can be consistently estimated by the method of principal components, and principal components can be constructed by iterative least squares regressions. Replacing least squares with ridge regressions turns out to have the effect of removing the contribution of factors associated with small singular values from the common component. The method has been used in the machine learning literature to recover low-rank…

动态预测计量建模中的大数据AI 解读

The modern economic environment is awash in Big Data. The business models of many of today’s largest and most innovative firms, for example, are intimately connected to data collection and processing. Closely related, all of science is now similarly awash in Big Data, due to massive advances in data capture and storage technology, typically in conjunction with the internet.1 Time-series econometrics is no exception, and the time-series community is beginning to confront Big…

固定与大时间跨度面板中非线性因子模型的统一推断AI 解读

We provide unifying inference theory for parametric nonlinear factor models based on a panel of noisy observations. The panel has a large cross-section and a time span that may be either small or large. Moreover, we incorporate an additional source of information, provided by noisy observations on some known functions of the factor realizations. The estimation is carried out via penalized least squares, i.e., by minimizing the L2 distance between observations from the panel…

含内生回归变量的异质面板中的结构变化AI 解读

Summary This paper extends Pesaran's ( Econometrica , 2006, 74 , 967–1012) common correlated effects (CCE) by allowing for endogenous regressors in large heterogeneous panels with unknown common structural changes in slopes and error factor structure. Since endogenous regressors and structural breaks are often encountered in empirical studies with large panels, this extension makes Pesaran's CCE approach empirically more appealing. In addition to allowing for slope…

使用高频数据检验因子数量的秩检验AI 解读

In the literature, consistency of the estimates of the number of factors for large-dimensional factor models had been extensively studied recently. But the second-order property of the estimator has long been unsolved due to lack of limiting distribution of the estimators. In this paper, we propose a rank test of the number of factors using large panel high-frequency data contaminated with microstructure noise. The rank test is realized by forming a fixed number of…

以个股检验资产定价模型：处理风险溢价估计中的变量测量误差偏差AI 解读

To attenuate an inherent errors-in-variables bias, portfolios are widely employed to test asset pricing models; but portfolios might mask relevant risk- or return-related features of individual stocks. We propose an instrumental variables approach that allows the use of individual stocks as test assets, yet delivers consistent estimates of ex post risk premiums. This estimator also yields well-specified tests in small samples. The market risk premium under the capital asset…

资产定价的需求系统方法AI 解读

We develop an asset pricing model with flexible heterogeneity in asset demand across investors, designed to match institutional and household holdings. A portfolio choice model implies characteristics-based demand when returns have a factor structure and expected returns and factor loadings depend on the assets’ own characteristics. We propose an instrumental variables estimator for the characteristics-based demand system to address the endogeneity of demand and asset…

固定时间维度面板中的共同相关效应估计AI 解读

Summary The presence of unobserved heterogeneity and its likely detrimental effect on inference has recently motivated the use of factor‐augmented panel regression models. The workhorse of this literature is based on first estimating the unknown factors using the cross‐section averages of the observables, and then applying ordinary least squares conditional on the first‐step factor estimates. This is the common correlated effects (CCE) approach, the existing asymptotic…

全球通胀能否帮助预测工业化国家的通胀？AI 解读

Summary Ciccarelli and Mojon (CM; Review of Economics and Statistics , 2010, 92 (3), 524–535) propose an inflation forecasting model incorporating a global inflation factor and show that it consistently beats several standard forecasting benchmarks. We show that CM's global inflation model does not improve upon the Atkeson and Ohanian (AO; Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Quarterly Review , 2001, 25 (1), 2–11) naive benchmark. However, we find that augmenting the AO model…

时变因子载荷下的资产定价检验AI 解读

Summary This paper proposes an empirical asset pricing test based on the homogeneity of the factor risk premia across risky assets. Factor loadings are considered to be dynamic and estimated from data at higher frequencies. The factor risk premia are obtained as estimates from time series regressions applied to each risky asset. We propose Swamy‐type tests robust to the presence of generated regressors and dependence between the pricing errors to assess the homogeneity of…

大规模已实现协方差矩阵的贝叶斯参数与半参数因子模型AI 解读

Summary This paper introduces a new factor structure suitable for modeling large realized covariance matrices with full likelihood‐based estimation. Parametric and nonparametric versions are introduced. Because of the computational advantages of our approach, we can model the factor nonparametrically as a Dirichlet process mixture or as an infinite hidden Markov mixture, which leads to an infinite mixture of inverse‐Wishart distributions. Applications to 10 assets and 60…

多表型研究中主成分关联检验功效的几何视角AI 解读

Joint analysis of multiple phenotypes can increase statistical power in genetic association studies. Principal component analysis, as a popular dimension reduction method, especially when the number of phenotypes is high dimensional, has been proposed to analyze multiple correlated phenotypes. It has been empirically observed that the first PC, which summarizes the largest amount of variance, can be less powerful than higher-order PCs and other commonly used methods in…

因子成分与特异成分的经验过程AI 解读

The distributions of the common and idiosyncratic components for an individual variable are important in forecasting and applications. However, they are not identified with low-dimensional observations. Using the recently developed theory for large dimensional approximate factor model for large panel data, the common and idiosyncratic components can be estimated consistently. Based on the estimated common and idiosyncratic components, we construct the empirical processes for…

从专业预测者视角衡量宏观经济不确定性AI 解读

We analyze the evolution of macroeconomic uncertainty in the United States, based on the forecast errors of consensus survey forecasts of various economic indicators. Comprehensive information contained in the survey forecasts enables us to capture a real-time measure of uncertainty surrounding subjective forecasts in a simple framework. We jointly model and estimate macroeconomic (common) and indicator-specific uncertainties of four indicators, using a factor stochastic…

充分方向因子模型及其在基因表达数量性状位点发现中的应用AI 解读

Rapid improvement in technology has made it relatively cheap to collect genetic data, however statistical analysis of existing data is still much cheaper. Thus, secondary analysis of single-nucleotide polymorphism, SNP, data, i.e., reanalysing existing data in an effort to extract more information, is an attractive and cost-effective alternative to collecting new data. We study the relationship between gene expression and SNPs through a combination of factor analysis and…

高维经济应用中的因子 Lasso 与 k 步 Bootstrap 推断AI 解读

We consider inference about coefficients on a small number of variables of interest in a linear panel data model with additive unobserved individual and time specific effects and a large number of additional time-varying confounding variables. We suppose that, in addition to unrestricted time and individual specific effects, these confounding variables are generated by a small number of common factors and high-dimensional weakly dependent disturbances. We allow that both the…

用马尔可夫转换图结构SUR模型刻画系统性风险AI 解读

We propose a Markov Switching Graphical Seemingly Unrelated Regression (MS-GSUR) model to investigate time-varying systemic risk based on a range of multi-factor asset pricing models. Methodologically, we develop a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) scheme in which latent states are identified on the basis of a novel weighted eigenvector centrality measure. An empirical application to the constituents of the S&P100 index shows that cross-firm connectivity significantly…

高维时变协方差的稀疏贝叶斯估计AI 解读

We address the curse of dimensionality in dynamic covariance estimation by modeling the underlying co-volatility dynamics of a time series vector through latent time-varying stochastic factors. The use of a global–local shrinkage prior for the elements of the factor loadings matrix pulls loadings on superfluous factors towards zero. To demonstrate the merits of the proposed framework, the model is applied to simulated data as well as to daily log-returns of 300 S&P 500…

时间序列预测中的动态贝叶斯预测综合AI 解读

We discuss model and forecast combination in time series forecasting. A foundational Bayesian perspective based on agent opinion analysis theory defines a new framework for density forecast combination, and encompasses several existing forecast pooling methods. We develop a novel class of dynamic latent factor models for time series forecast synthesis; simulation-based computation enables implementation. These models can dynamically adapt to time-varying biases,…

稀疏动态因子模型的贝叶斯估计：顺序无关与事后模态识别AI 解读

Common variation in N series is extracted into k≪N dynamic factors. We induce sparsity by using a zero point mass–normal mixture prior distribution on the loadings. Estimation and rotational identification are independent of variable ordering. Sparsity helps identifying the factor space and the factors. Rotational identification, including factor order and sign, is obtained by processing the posterior output and based on factor draws rather than factor loading draws.…

好得难以置信？风险因子模型评价中的谬误AI 解读

This paper is concerned with statistical inference and model evaluation in possibly misspecified and unidentified linear asset pricing models estimated by maximum likelihood. Strikingly, when spurious factors (that is, factors that are uncorrelated with the returns on the test assets) are present, the model exhibits perfect fit, as measured by the squared correlation between the model’s fitted expected returns and the average realized returns. Furthermore, factors that are…

高维近似稀疏分位数回归模型中的有效选择后推断AI 解读

This work proposes new inference methods for a regression coefficient of interest in a (heterogeneous) quantile regression model. We consider a high-dimensional model where the number of regressors potentially exceeds the sample size but a subset of them suffice to construct a reasonable approximation to the conditional quantile function. The proposed methods are (explicitly or implicitly) based on orthogonal score functions that protect against moderate model selection…

序列相关函数数据的贝叶斯半参数函数混合模型：青光眼数据应用AI 解读

Glaucoma, a leading cause of blindness, is characterized by optic nerve damage related to intraocular pressure (IOP), but its full etiology is unknown. Researchers at UAB have devised a custom device to measure scleral strain continuously around the eye under fixed levels of IOP, which here is used to assess how strain varies around the posterior pole, with IOP, and across glaucoma risk factors such as age. The hypothesis is that scleral strain decreases with age, which…

跳跃事件中的秩检验AI 解读

We propose a test for the rank of a cross-section of processes at a set of jump events. The jump events are either specific known times or are random and associated with jumps of some process. The test is formed from discretely sampled data on a fixed time interval with asymptotically shrinking mesh. In the first step, we form nonparametric estimates of the jump events via thresholding techniques. We then compute the eigenvalues of the outer product of the cross-section of…