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Title: | Novel Factor Models for Validating Market Risk Factors and Forecasting Bond Risk Premia |
Originating Office: | IAS |
Speaker: | Fan, Jianqing |
Issue Date: | 23-Jun-2016 |
Event Date: | 23-Jun-2016 |
Group/Series/Folder: | Record Group 8.15 - Institute for Advanced Study Series 3 - Audio-visual Materials |
Location: | 8.15:3 EF |
Notes: | IAS Quantitative Finance and Fintech seminar series. IAS Quantitative Finance and Fintech Mini Workshop. Title from slide title. Abstract: In financial factor models for instance, the unknown factors can be reasonable well predicted by a few observable proxies, such as the Fama-French factors. In diffusion index forecasts, identified factors are strongly related to several directly measurable economic variables such as consumption-wealth variable, financial ratios, and term spread. To incorporate the explanatory power of these observed characteristics, we propose a new two-step estimation procedure: (i) regress the data onto the observables, and (ii) take the principal components of the fitted data to estimate the loadings and factors. The proposed estimator is robust to possibly heavy-tailed distributions, which are encountered by many macroeconomic and financial time series. With those proxies, the factors can be estimated accuately even if the cross-sectional dimension is mild. Empirically, we apply the model to forecast US bond risk premia, and find that the observed macroeconomic characteristics contain strong explanatory powers of the factors. The gain of forecast is more substantial when these characteristics are incorporated to estimate the common factors than directly used for forecasts. Duration: 52 min. |
Appears in Series: | 8.15:3 - Audio-visual Materials Videos for Public -- Distinguished Lectures |