Augmented Factor Models with Applications to Validating Market Risk Factors and Forecasting Bond Risk Premia
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增广因子模型：市场风险因子验证与债券风险溢价预测
- 研究问题
- 当可观测协变量能够解释潜在因子时，如何利用这些信息识别和估计因子与载荷，并评估市场风险代理及债券风险溢价预测？
- 方法与思路
- 作者提出平滑 PCA：先将数据回归于可观测协变量，再对拟合数据取主成分，用于估计载荷、因子及其被解释和未解释部分。
- 材料陈述的贡献
- 摘要称，信号足够时可改善因子与载荷收敛率，估计对可能的重尾分布稳健，并在美国债券风险溢价应用中报告预测收益。
- 阅读关注点
- 应核对旋转意义下的识别条件、协变量信号强度与稳健性要求，以及预测比较的样本划分、基准方法和信息可得性。
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原文摘要
We study factor models augmented by observed covariates that have explanatory powers on the unknown factors. In financial factor models, the unknown factors can be reasonably well explained by a few observable proxies, such as the Fama-French factors. In diffusion index forecasts, identified factors are strongly related to several directly measurable economic variables such as consumption-wealth variable, financial ratios, and term spread. With those covariates, both the factors and loadings are identifiable up to a rotation matrix even only with a finite dimension. To incorporate the explanatory power of these covariates, we propose a smoothed principal component analysis (PCA): (i) regress the data onto the observed covariates, and (ii) take the principal components of the fitted data to estimate the loadings and factors. This allows us to accurately estimate the percentage of both explained and unexplained components in factors and thus to assess the explanatory power of covariates. We show that both the estimated factors and loadings can be estimated with improved rates of convergence compared to the benchmark method. The degree of improvement depends on the strength of the signals, representing the explanatory power of the covariates on the factors. The proposed estimator is robust to possibly heavy-tailed distributions. We apply the model to forecast US bond risk premia, and find that the observed macroeconomic characteristics contain strong explanatory powers of the factors. The gain of forecast is more substantial when the characteristics are incorporated to estimate the common factors than directly used for forecasts.