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An empirical analysis of nonstationarity in a panel of interest rates with factors
Author(s) -
Moon Hyungsik Roger,
Perron Benoit
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of applied econometrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.878
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 1099-1255
pISSN - 0883-7252
DOI - 10.1002/jae.931
Subject(s) - econometrics , panel data , economics , interest rate , factor analysis , focus (optics) , term (time) , panel analysis , macroeconomics , physics , quantum mechanics , optics
This paper studies nonstationarities in a panel of Canadian and US interest rates of different maturities and risk. We focus on methods which model the cross‐sectional dependence within the panel as a linear dynamic factor model, and decompose our data into common and idiosyncratic components that we analyze in turn. Our results suggest the presence of a single nonstationary factor in our panel. Since some of the idiosyncratic components are stationary, we conclude that these series are cointegrated. Finally, the dominant factors can be interpreted as level and slope factors as in the term structure literature. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.