Approximate Factor Model with S-vine Copula Structure
具有 S-vine Copula 结构的近似因子模型
We propose a novel framework for approximate factor models that integrates an S-vine copula structure to capture complex dependencies among common factors. Our estimation procedure proceeds in two steps: first, we apply principal component analysis (PCA) to extract the factors; second, we employ maximum likelihood estimation that combines kernel density estimation for the margins with an S-vine copula to model the dependence structure. Jointly fitting the S-vine copula with…