Abstract

Recent work with Factor-Augmented Vector Autoregression (FAVAR) suggests that standard VAR analysis can be improved by incorporating the information in a large number of macroeconomic series. I examine what new information FAVAR factors contribute. Using a sparse modication to principal components, I nd that 1) extracted factors (and their impulse responses)

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