In this paper we present an alternative method for the spectral analysis of a strictly stationary time series {Yt}t2Z. We define a “new” spectrum as the Fourier transform of the differences between copulas of the pairs (Yt, Yt−k) and the independence copula. This object is called copula...

Macroeconometric data often come under the form of large panels of time series, themselves decomposing into smaller but still quite large subpanels or blocks. We show how the dynamic factor analysis method proposed in Forni et al (2000), combined with the identification method of Hallin and...

Factor model methods recently have become extremely popular in the theory and practice of large panels of time series data. Those methods rely on various factor models which all are particular cases of the Generalized Dynamic Factor Model (GDFM) introduced in Forni, Hallin, Lippi and Reichlin...