Shrinking Factor Dimension: A Reduced-Rank Approach
Ai He, Dashan Huang, Jiaen Li, Guofu Zhou
Management Science · 2023 · Volume 69 · Issue 9
Abstract
We provide a reduced-rank approach (RRA) to extract a few factors from a large set of factor proxies and apply the extracted factors to model the cross-section of expected stock returns. Empirically, we find that the RRA five-factor model outperforms the well-known Fama–French five-factor model as well as the corresponding principal component analysis, partial least squares, and least absolute shrinkage and selection operator models for pricing portfolios. However, at the stock level, our RRA factor model still has large pricing errors even after adding more factors, suggesting that the representative factor proxies of our study do not have sufficient information for pricing individual stocks. This paper was accepted by Lukas Schmid, finance. Funding: D. Huang acknowledges that this study was partially funded at the Singapore Management University through a research [Grant MSS20B016] from the Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 1. Supplemental Material: The online appendix and data are available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2022.4563 .
Keywords
reduced rank, PCA, PLS, LASSO, dimension reduction
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