A Dynamic Factor Model for Level and Volatility
水平与波动率的动态因子模型
This paper develops a dynamic factor model in which common level and volatility factors evolve jointly, allowing conditional means and variances to interact endogenously within a large-information setting. The joint evolution of these factors provides a tractable framework for modeling risk, as fluctuations in volatility affect both the dispersion and the location of outcomes, generating state-dependent and asymmetric tail risks in predictive distributions. Volatility is…