Ramsauer, Franz; Min, Aleksey; Lingauer, Michael - In: Econometrics : open access journal 7 (2019) 3/31, pp. 1-43
This article extends the Factor-Augmented Vector Autoregression Model (FAVAR) to mixed-frequency and incomplete panel data. Within the scope of a fully parametric two-step approach, the alternating application of two expectation-maximization algorithms jointly estimates model parameters and...