Constructing a Coincident Index of Business Cycles without Assuming a One-Factor Model

The Stock-Watson coincident index and its subsequent extensions assume a static linear one-factor structure for the component indicators. Such assumption is restrictive in practice, however, with as few as four indicators. In fact, such assumption is unnecessary if one defines a coincident index as...

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Main Authors: MARIANO, Roberto S., MURASAWA, Yasutomo
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2004
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/795
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/1794/viewcontent/Mariano_murasawa04.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English