Detecting big structural breaks in large factor models

Liang Chen
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Jesus Gonzalo, Juan J. Dolado and Antonio Cabrales

UC3M Working papers. Economics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía

Abstract: Time invariance of factor loadings is a standard assumption in the analysis of large factor models. Yet, this assumption may be restrictive unless parameter shifts are mild (i.e., local to zero). In this paper we develop a new testing procedure to detect big breaks in these loadings at either known or unknown dates. It relies upon testing for parameter breaks in a regression of the first of the r¯ factors estimated by PCA on the remaining r¯ − 1 factors, where r¯ is chosen according to Bai and Ng’s (2002) information criteria. The test fares well in terms of power relative to other recently proposed tests on this issue, and can be easily implemented to avoid forecasting failures in standard factor-augmented (FAR, FAVAR) models where the number of factors is a priori imposed on the basis of theoretical considerations.

Keywords: Structural; break; Large; factor; model; Loadings; Principal; components (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C12 C33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-12
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