Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5062027 | Economics Letters | 2008 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
This paper shows that in finite samples it is not possible to distinguish all the latent factors from the idiosyncratic noise and that this leads to a bias towards the identification of a single factor. It provides an approximation to this bias and the corresponding sampling distribution.
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Authors
Matthew C. Harding,