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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2011
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Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 11-122/4
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Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Zusammenfassung: 
Factor construction methods are widely used to summarize a large panel of variables by means of a relatively small number of representative factors. We propose a novel factor construction procedure that enjoys the properties of robustness to outliers and of sparsity; that is, having relatively few nonzero factor loadings. Compared to more traditional factor construction methods, we find that this procedure leads to better interpretable factors and to a favorable forecasting performance, both in a Monte Carlo experiment and in two empirical applications to large data sets, one from macroeconomics and one from microeconomics.
Schlagwörter: 
dimension reduction
forecasting
outliers
regularization
JEL: 
C38
C51
C53
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