Property of Inverse Covariance Matrix-based Financial Adjacency Matrix for Detecting Local Groups

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Autori principali: Oh, Minseog, Kim, Donggyu
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author Oh, Minseog
Kim, Donggyu
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Kim, Donggyu
contents In financial applications, we often observe both global and local factors that are modeled by a multi-level factor model. When detecting unknown local group memberships under such a model, employing a covariance matrix as an adjacency matrix for local group memberships is inadequate due to the predominant effect of global factors. Thus, to detect a local group structure more effectively, this study introduces an inverse covariance matrix-based financial adjacency matrix (IFAM) that utilizes negative values of the inverse covariance matrix. We show that IFAM ensures that the edge density between different groups vanishes, while that within the same group remains non-vanishing. This reduces falsely detected connections and helps identify local group membership accurately. To estimate IFAM under the multi-level factor model, we introduce a factor-adjusted GLASSO estimator to address the prevalent global factor effect in the inverse covariance matrix. An empirical study using returns from international stocks across 20 financial markets demonstrates that incorporating IFAM effectively detects latent local groups, which helps improve the minimum variance portfolio allocation performance.
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Oh, Minseog
Kim, Donggyu
Econometrics
In financial applications, we often observe both global and local factors that are modeled by a multi-level factor model. When detecting unknown local group memberships under such a model, employing a covariance matrix as an adjacency matrix for local group memberships is inadequate due to the predominant effect of global factors. Thus, to detect a local group structure more effectively, this study introduces an inverse covariance matrix-based financial adjacency matrix (IFAM) that utilizes negative values of the inverse covariance matrix. We show that IFAM ensures that the edge density between different groups vanishes, while that within the same group remains non-vanishing. This reduces falsely detected connections and helps identify local group membership accurately. To estimate IFAM under the multi-level factor model, we introduce a factor-adjusted GLASSO estimator to address the prevalent global factor effect in the inverse covariance matrix. An empirical study using returns from international stocks across 20 financial markets demonstrates that incorporating IFAM effectively detects latent local groups, which helps improve the minimum variance portfolio allocation performance.
title Property of Inverse Covariance Matrix-based Financial Adjacency Matrix for Detecting Local Groups
topic Econometrics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05664