A cross‐section average‐based principal components approach for fixed‐ T panels
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适用于固定T面板的截面平均主成分方法
- 研究问题
- 当微观面板的截面单位很多、时期数固定且可能很小时，如何估计共同因子及平均载荷、确定因子数，并进行因子增强回归分析？
- 方法与思路
- 作者提出截面平均主成分方法CPC，对截面平均数据的协方差矩阵进行特征分析，以平均化减弱特有噪声，并建立固定T、大N下的理论。
- 材料陈述的贡献
- 摘要称，该方法在固定T的面板中提供因子与平均载荷估计、因子数确定和因子增强回归的整套工具，并用蒙特卡洛模拟评估相关理论。
- 阅读关注点
- 核对截面平均如何构造、其保留共同因子信息所需的条件及噪声削弱机制，区分平均载荷与个体载荷，并查看因子数判定和回归估计的适用条件。
- 阅读边界
- 摘要未列出理论成立条件、截面平均的具体构造或模拟数值；其载荷结果针对平均载荷，不能据此推断个体载荷或任意短面板下的估计精度。
原文摘要
Summary Because of the increased availability of large panel data sets, common factor models have become very popular. The workhorse of the literature is the principal components (PC) method, which is based on an eigen‐analysis of the sample covariance matrix of the data. Some of its uses are to estimate the factors and their loadings, to determine the number of factors, and to conduct inference when estimated factors are used in panel regression models. The bulk of the underlying theory that justifies these uses is based on the assumption that both the number of time periods, T , and the number of cross‐section units, N , tend to infinity. This is a drawback, because in practice T and N are always finite, which means that the asymptotic approximation can be poor, and there are plenty of simulation results that confirm this. In the current paper, we focus on the typical micro panel where only N is large and T is finite and potentially very small—a scenario that has not received much attention in the PC literature. A version of PC is proposed, henceforth referred to as cross‐section average‐based PC (CPC), whereby the eigen‐analysis is performed on the covariance matrix of the cross‐section averaged data as opposed to on the covariance matrix of the raw data as in original PC. The averaging attenuates the idiosyncratic noise, and this is the reason why in CPC T can be fixed. Mirroring the development in the PC literature, the new method is used to estimate the factors and their average loadings, to determine the number of factors, and to estimate factor‐augmented regressions, leading to a complete CPC‐based toolbox. The relevant theory is established, and is evaluated using Monte Carlo simulations.