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Large Dimensional Factor Models with a Multi-Level Factor Structure: Identification, Estimation and Inference Peng Wang (wp 2010, first draft: 2008)

Omar Rachedi

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Motivation !

Xit = λi Ft + eit or

Xt =ΛFt +et

Why factor models? • RBC models can be approximated with a reduced form which has a factor structure • Reduce Dimensionality Why large dimension? • Availability of large data set • Both N and T goes to infinity • Allows to estimate Ft

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Motivation (cont.) • Consider now to run a factor model to EuroArea → European and country-specific factors • It requires the definition of a multi-level factor structure • This framework can be applied to: • Labor Economics: a panel of households divided into several

income groups

• International Economics: a panel of country divided into

industrialized and emerging countries

• Different pattern of comovements within real and financial

sectors

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A Two-Level Factor Model

xits = γis ! Gt + λis ! Fts + eits , i = 1, ..., Ns , s = 1, ..., S where • Gt is the pervasive factor which affects all sectors • Fts is the nonpervasive factor, which affects only sector s.

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A Two-Level Factor Model (cont.) xts = Γs Gt + Λs Fts + ets , s = 1, ..., S  1   1  Λ 0 xt1 Γ  0 Λ2 F xt ≡  . . .  , Γ =  · · ·  , Λ =   ... ... xtS ΓS 0 ···  1   1  Ft et Ft =  . . .  , et ≡  . . .  FtS etS  1  ) xt ' ( F F   xt ≡ . . . = ΓGt + Λ Ft + et = Γ, Λ xtS 

 ... 0 0 ···  , ... ...  0 ΛS

Gt Ft

*

+ et

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A Two-Level Factor Model (cont.) The estimator for (γis , Gt , λis , Fts ) is the one which minimizes sum of squared residuals

T

S

Ns

∑∑∑

t=1 s=1 i=1

+

xits − γis ! Gt − λis ! Fts

,2

T

=



t=1

+ ,! + , xt − ΓGt − ΛF Ft xt − ΓGt − ΛF Ft

subject to some identifying assumptions for (γis , Gt , λis , Fts ). Notice that: • ΛF is a block diagonal → a large number of zero restrictions • the number of sector-specific factors grows with the number of sectors → specify the asymptotic behavior of the number of subsectors S

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Assumptions

• ASS A (Factors): p

! • E $Gt $4 ≤ M < ∞, T −1 ∑T t=1 Gt Gt → ΣG for some r × r p.d.

ΣG

p

s s! • E $Fts $4 ≤ M < ∞, T −1 ∑T t=1 Ft Ft → ΣF s for some r × r p.d.

ΣF s , s = 1, ..., S

p

! • Ht = [Gt! , Ft! ]! . T −1 ∑T t=1 Ht Ht → ΣH for p.d. ΣH with rank

r + r1 + . . . + rs and for fixed S

• When S → ∞, plim(T , S)→∞ µµmax < c for some constant c min

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• ASS B (Factor Loadings): ¯ <∞ • $γis $ ≤ γ¯ < ∞, $λis $ ≤ λ

• $Λs ! Λs /Ns − ΣΛs $ → 0 for r × r p.d. matrix ΣΛs

• $Γs ! Γs /Ns − ΣΓs $ → 0 for r × r p.d. matrix ΣΓs , s = 1, ..., S • $Γ! Γ/N − ΣΓ $ → 0 for r × r p.d. matrix

ΣΓ = limS →∞ S1 ∑Ss=1 ΣΓs

• rank ([Γs Λs ]) = rs + r

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Assumptions (cont.) • ASS C : ∃M < ∞ such that

+ , + , • E eits = 0, E eits S ≤ M . + , s s s • E ek! et /N = E N1 ∑Ss=1 ∑N i=1 eik eit = γN (k, t) , |γN (k, t)| ≤ M for all t and 1 T T ∑ ∑ |γN (t, s)| ≤ M T k=1 t=1 / / . / s1 ,s2 / s1 ,s2 s1 ,s2 s s • E eits1 ejts2 = τij,t with /τij,t ≥ 0 and for / ≤ τij1 2 for some τij,t all t. Moreover 1 N

S

S

Ns1 Ns2

s ,s ∑ ∑ ∑ ∑ τij,t

s1 =1 s2 =1 i=1 j=1

1

2

≤M

. s1 ,s2 S1 S2 • E eik ejt = τij,kt , and

/ / Ns1 Ns2 T / s1 ,s2 / (NT )−1 ∑Ss1 =1 ∑Ss2 =1 ∑i=1 ∑j=1 ∑k=1 ∑T t=1 /τij,kt / ≤ M

/ ' s s + s s ,(//4 s • ∀ (k, t) E //N −1/2 ∑Ss=1 ∑N i=1 eik eit − E eik eit / ≤ M

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Assumptions (cont.) • ASS D (Weak dependence between factors and errors): 0 1 12 2 T s s1 s 1 √1 • E N1 ∑N F e ≤ M, s = 1, ..., S i=1 1 T ∑t=1 t it 1 • E

0

1 N

1 12 2 Ns 1 √1 s1 G e ≤M 1 T ∑T ∑Ss=1 ∑i=1 t=1 t it 1

• ASS E (Weak Dependence): ∀k, t, j, s2 , T , N • ∑T k=1 |γN (k, t)| ≤ M < ∞ Ns

• ∑Ss1 =1 ∑i=11 τijs1 s2 ≤ M < ∞

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Why Identification?

• In the multi-level factor model, common factors and sector-specific factors are not separately identified. • To find restrictions on the model such that • it is uniquely identified such under normalization → imposing

extra restrictions on factor loadings only

• common factors and sector-specific factors are separately

identified → allows to cast economic meanings and examine the interaction of different factors

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• ASS F: s! • If factors have zero mean → ∑T t=1 Gt Ft = 0 for s = 1, ..., S

• If factors have' nonzero mean (' 1 → 1 T T T s!

∑t=1 Gt Ft −

T

∑t=1 Gt

T

( ∑t=1 Fts ! = 0

• A pure static factor models needs (r + r1 + ... + rs )s restrictions whereas the multi-level one requires (S − 1) (N1 r1 + ... + NS rs )

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Definitions • Within sector identification (WSI): • If Γs Gt is known for s = 1, ...S, Λs and Fts in the model

xts − Γs Gt = Λs Fts + ets are uniquely identified.

• Between sector identification (BSI): • If Λs Fts is known for s = 1, ...S, Γ and Gt in the model

xts − Λs Fts = Γs Gt + ets are uniquely identified.

• BWI requires r 2 more restrictions, given the sector specific components, while WSI needs r12 + ... + rS2 given the common components.

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Rotation • The factor loadings for the model are identified up to a linear transformation of the following form 

A00  A10 R! =   ... AS)

0 A11 ... 0

 ... 0 ... 0   ... ...  . . . ASS

where Aij is any ri × rj matrix with r0 = r .



Type 1 2 3

Summary of restrictions = Ir and Γ! Γ diagonal s! s F F = Irs and Λs ! Λs diagonal, ∀s T G ! F s = 0, ∀s G !G T

N. restrictions r2 r12 + ... + rS2 (r1 + ... + rS ) r

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Estimators • Assume WSI, BSI, orthogonality' between common factors and ( sector-specific factors. Let F = F 1 , F 2 , ..., F S , X s = [x1s , ..., xTs ]! . Define As = X s X s ! and A = A1 + ... + AS . Assume rank(F ) = r1 + ... + rS . Then: ˆ = r eigenvectors for P ˆ A corresponding to its largest r • √1 G F T

eigenvalues • √1 Fˆs = rs eigenvectors for PGˆ As corresponding to its largest T rs eigenvalues .−1 ˆ Fˆ ! Fˆ • PFˆ = IT − F Fˆ ! .−1 ˆ ! = IT − G ˆG ˆ ! /T ˆ G ˆ !G ˆ • PGˆ = IT − G G

• The estimators loadings are given by 3 4 3 for factor 4 ˆs , Λ ˆs = X s! G ˆ , Fˆ s /T Γ

• Iterative Principal Component Analysis

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Assumptions • ASS G: ∃M < ∞| ∀N, S, T 1 1 1 1 E 1√ 1 Ns T

1 1 1 1 E 1√ 1 NT

S

12 1 1 ∑ ∑ Fks [eiks eits − E (eiks eits )]11 ≤ M, ∀t, s i=1 k=1 Ns

Ns

T

T

∑∑∑

s=1 i=1 k=1

Gk [eiks eits

−E

12 1

1 (eiks eits )]1 1

≤ M, ∀t, s

1 12 1 1 1 Ns T 1 1 Fks λis ! eits 1 ≤ M, for F and G E 1√ ∑ ∑ 1 1 Ns T i=1 k=1 1 12 1 1 1 S Ns T 1 s! s 1 E 1√ G γ e ∑ ∑ ∑ k i it 11 ≤ M, for F and G 1 NT s=1 i=1 k=1

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Assumptions (cont.) 1 √ Ns 1 √ N

Ns

∑ λis eits → N (0, Σst ) d

i=1 Ns

∑ γis eits → N (0, Σt ) d

i=1

T

∀t, s, Ns → ∞, N → ∞ ∀t, s, Ns → ∞, N → ∞

1 √ T

d

i=1

∀i, T → ∞

1 √ T

∑ Gt eits → N (0, Ψsi )

∀i, T → ∞

∑ Fts eits → N (0, Φsi ) T

i=1

d

• ASS H: Eigenvalues of the rs × rs matrix (ΣΛs ΣF s ) are distinct. Eigenvalues of the r × r matrix (ΣΓ ΣF s ) are distinct.

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Inference when S = 2

• Two-step estimator (r = rs , N1 + N2 = M): • in the first step, a sector-by-sector principal component

ˆ H ˆ ∗ which are analysis it is conducted to extract factors H, linear combination of the common and sector specific sectors

• consistent estimator for the rotation matrixed based on the

identifying assumptions is provided, that is, Gt , Ft , Ft∗ are ˆ H ˆ ∗ using the estimated rotation obtained multiplying H, matrix.

• The two step estimators for Gt , Ft , Ft∗ are



M−consistent.

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Inference when S → ∞ • N1 = ... = Ns = M, r = r1 = ... = rs , N = M · S √ • The estimator for the common factor is N-consistent: • If sector-specific factors are uncorrelated with each other and

independent of common factors, then we may consistently estimate common factors using a subsample, consisting of one time series from -√ each. settor → the estimated common factors are only min S, T - consistent as in Bai (2003)

√ • The estimator for the common factor is M-consistent, i.e., sector-specific factors have a slower convergence rate

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Inference when S → ∞ - Sector Specific Factors • Under ASS A-H, assume then we have √



M T

→ 0 and

. 1 M Fts − ˆH s ! Fts = As √ M



. M Gt −ˆH ! Gt = op (1),

M

∑ λis eits + op (1) → N d

i=1

where −1 As = plim VMT

1 T

T



k=1

-

Fˆks Fks !

.

+

0, As Φst As !

,

and VMT is a diagonal matrix consisting of the first r eigenvalues of

XX ! MT .

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Inference when S → ∞ - Common Factors • Under ASS A-H, assume

where µt = O neglected if

S M



T N

→ 0, then we have

. √ √ + , d ˆi − H ! Gt − N µt → N G N 0, ΣG t -

√1

S N M

→0

• Factor loadings are

.

is the bias correction term, that can be

√ T consistent

• The paper provides the estimator for all the covariance

matrices

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• Wang generalizes the static factor model framework to a

multi-level specification

• The paper derives the required extra-identifying restrictions in

order to recover the hyperplane spanned by the factors √ • Common factors are N consistent

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E Fs t. 4. ≤ M < ∞, T−1 ∑T t=1 Fs t Fs t p. → ΣFs for some r ×r p.d.. ΣFs , s = 1,...,S. • Ht = [Gt,Ft ] . T−1 ∑T t=1 HtHt p. → ΣH for p.d. ΣH with rank r +r1 +...+rs and ...

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