This chapter surveys the importance of reduced rank regression techniques (RRR) for modelling economic and financial time series. We mainly focus on models that are capable to reproduce the presence of common dynamics among variables such as the serial correlation common feature and the...

Combining economic time series with the aim to obtain an indicator for business cycle analyses is an important issue for policy makers. In this area, econometric techniques usually rely on systems with either a small number of series, N, (VAR or VECM) or, at the other extreme, a very large N...