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Factor-based forecasting in the presence of outliers: Are factors better selected and estimated by the median than by the mean?
Abstract Macroeconomic forecasting using factor models estimated by principal components has become a popular research topic with many both theoretical and applied contributions in the literature. In this paper we attempt to address an often neglected issue in these models: The problem of outliers in the data. Most papers take …