Seminar
Detecting Groups in Large Vector Autoregressions
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SeriesTI Complexity in Economics Seminars
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Speaker(s)Christian Brownlees (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain)
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FieldComplexity
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LocationUniversity of Amsterdam, Roeterseilandcampus, room E5.22
Amsterdam -
Date and time
April 25, 2024
12:00 - 13:00
This work introduces the stochastic block vector autoregressive (SB-VAR) model. In this class of vector autoregressions, the time series are partitioned into latent groups such that spillover effects are stronger among series that belong to the same group than otherwise. A key question that arises in this framework is how to detect the latent groups from a sample of observations generated by the model. To this end, we propose a group detection algorithm based on the eigenvectors of a function of the estimated autoregressive matrices. We establish that the proposed algorithm consistently detects the groups when the cross-sectional and time-series dimensions are sufficiently large. The methodology is applied to study the group structure of a panel of risk measures of top financial institutions in the United States and a panel of word counts extracted from Twitter. Joint work with Guðmundur Stefán Guðmundsson.