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Analyzing business and financial cycles using multi-level factor models

This paper compares alternative estimation procedures for multi-level factor models which imply blocks of zero restrictions on the associated matrix of factor loadings. We suggest a sequential least squares algorithm for minimizing the total sum of squared residuals and a two-step approach based on canonical correlations that are much simpler and faster than Bayesian approaches previously employed in the literature. Monte Carlo simulations suggest that the estimators perform well in typical sample sizes encountered in the factor analysis of macroeconomic data sets. We apply the methodologies to study international comovements of business and financial cycles as well as asymmetries over the business cycle in the US.

ISBN
978-3-95729-033-5
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Bundesbank Discussion Paper ; No. 11/2014

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Classification Methods; Cluster Analysis; Principal Components; Factor Models
Large Data Sets: Modeling and Analysis
Thema
factor models
canonical correlations
international business cycles
financial cycles
business cycle asymmetries

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Breitung, Jörg
Eickmeier, Sandra
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Deutsche Bundesbank
(wo)
Frankfurt a. M.
(wann)
2014

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Breitung, Jörg
  • Eickmeier, Sandra
  • Deutsche Bundesbank

Entstanden

  • 2014

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