Identification of Macroeconomic Factors in Large Panels
Mardi | 2011-04-19 B103 Lasse BORK – Hans DEWACHTER – Romain HOUSSA This paper presents a dynamic factor model where the extracted factorsand shocks are given a clear economic interpretation. The economic inter-pretation of the factors is obtained by means of a set of over-identifyingloading restrictions, while the structural shocks are estimated followingstandard practices in the SVAR literature. Estimators based on the EMalgorithm are developed. We apply this framework to a large panel of USmonthly macroeconomic series. In particular, we […]