papers

Publications (40)

econ.EM2021

Inference in heavy-tailed non-stationary multivariate time series

Matteo Barigozzi, Giuseppe Cavaliere, Lorenzo Trapani

We study inference on the common stochastic trends in a non-stationary, -variate time series , in the possible presence of heavy tails. We propose a novel methodology whi…

math.ST2021

An algebraic estimator for large spectral density matrices

Matteo Barigozzi, Matteo Farnè

We propose a new estimator of high-dimensional spectral density matrices, called UNshrunk ALgebraic Spectral Estimator (UNALSE), under the assumption of an underlying low rank plus…

stat.ME2023

Robust Tensor Factor Analysis

Matteo Barigozzi, Yong He, Lingxiao Li +1

We consider (robust) inference in the context of a factor model for tensor-valued sequences. We study the consistency of the estimated common factors and loadings space when using…

physics.soc-ph2017

Spatio-Temporal Patterns of the International Merger and Acquisition Network

Marco Dueñas, Rossana Mastrandrea, Matteo Barigozzi +1

This paper analyses the world web of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) using a complex network approach. We use data of M&As to build a temporal sequence of binary and weighted-direc…

econ.EM2026

The Canonical Decomposition of Factor Models: Weak Factors are Everywhere

Philipp Gersing, Matteo Barigozzi, Christoph Rust +1

We derive a novel canonical decomposition of factor models encompassing both the static factor model - where factors are loaded only contemporaneously - and the Generalised Dynamic…

stat.ME2020

Sequential testing for structural stability in approximate factor models

Matteo Barigozzi, Lorenzo Trapani

We develop a monitoring procedure to detect changes in a large approximate factor model. Letting be the number of common factors, we base our statistics on the fact that the $\…

stat.ME2018

Determining the dimension of factor structures in non-stationary large datasets

Matteo Barigozzi, Lorenzo Trapani

We propose a procedure to determine the dimension of the common factor space in a large, possibly non-stationary, dataset. Our procedure is designed to determine whether there are…

q-fin.GN2010

Multinetwork of international trade: A commodity-specific analysis

Matteo Barigozzi, Giorgio Fagiolo, Diego Garlaschelli

We study the topological properties of the multinetwork of commodity-specific trade relations among world countries over the 1992-2003 period, comparing them with those of the aggr…

econ.EM2024

Modelling Large Dimensional Datasets with Markov Switching Factor Models

Matteo Barigozzi, Daniele Massacci

We study a novel large dimensional approximate factor model with regime changes in the loadings driven by a latent first order Markov process. By exploiting the equivalent linear r…

econ.EM2024

Hierarchical DCC-HEAVY Model for High-Dimensional Covariance Matrices

Emilija Dzuverovic, Matteo Barigozzi

We introduce a HD DCC-HEAVY class of hierarchical-type factor models for high-dimensional covariance matrices, employing the realized measures built from higher-frequency data. The…

econ.EM2026

Mean Square Errors of factors extracted using principal components, linear projections, and Kalman filter

Matteo Barigozzi, Diego Fresoli, Esther Ruiz

Factor extraction from systems of variables with a large cross-sectional dimension, , is often based on either Principal Components (PC)-based procedures, or Kalman filter (KF)-…

econ.EM2025

Measuring the Euro Area Output Gap

Matteo Barigozzi, Claudio Lissona, Matteo Luciani

We measure the Euro Area (EA) output gap and potential output using a non-stationary dynamic factor model estimated on a large dataset of macroeconomic and financial variables. Our…

stat.ME2025

Tail-robust factor modelling of vector and tensor time series in high dimensions

Matteo Barigozzi, Haeran Cho, Hyeyoung Maeng

We study the problem of factor modelling vector- and tensor-valued time series in the presence of heavy tails in the data, which produce extreme observations with non-negligible pr…

stat.ME2020

Consistent estimation of high-dimensional factor models when the factor number is over-estimated

Matteo Barigozzi, Haeran Cho

A high-dimensional -factor model for an -dimensional vector time series is characterised by the presence of a large eigengap (increasing with ) between the -th and the…

stat.ME2025

Statistical inference for large-dimensional tensor factor model by iterative projections

Matteo Barigozzi, Yong He, Lingxiao Li +1

Tensor Factor Models (TFM) are appealing dimension reduction tools for high-order large-dimensional tensor time series, and have wide applications in economics, finance and medical…

econ.EM2023

Multidimensional dynamic factor models

Matteo Barigozzi, Filippo Pellegrino

This paper generalises dynamic factor models for multidimensional dependent data. In doing so, it develops an interpretable technique to study complex information sources ranging f…

econ.EM2019

Generalized Dynamic Factor Models and Volatilities: Consistency, rates, and prediction intervals

Matteo Barigozzi, Marc Hallin

Volatilities, in high-dimensional panels of economic time series with a dynamic factor structure on the levels or returns, typically also admit a dynamic factor decomposition. We c…

physics.data-an2008

On approximating the distributions of goodness-of-fit test statistics based on the empirical distribution function: The case of unknown parameters

Marco Capasso, Lucia Alessi, Matteo Barigozzi +1

This paper discusses some problems possibly arising when approximating via Monte-Carlo simulations the distributions of goodness-of-fit test statistics based on the empirical distr…

stat.CO2023

fnets: An R Package for Network Estimation and Forecasting via Factor-Adjusted VAR Modelling

Dom Owens, Haeran Cho, Matteo Barigozzi

The package fnets for the R language implements the suite of methodologies proposed by Barigozzi et al. (2022) for the network estimation and forecasting of high-dimensional time s…

physics.soc-ph2010

Identifying the Community Structure of the International-Trade Multi Network

Matteo Barigozzi, Giorgio Fagiolo, Giuseppe Mangioni

We study the community structure of the multi-network of commodity-specific trade relations among world countries over the 1992-2003 period. We compare structures across commoditie…

stat.ME2026

Estimation of large approximate dynamic matrix factor models based on the EM algorithm and Kalman filtering

Matteo Barigozzi, Luca Trapin

This paper considers an approximate dynamic matrix factor model that accounts for the time series nature of the data by explicitly modelling the time evolution of the factors. We s…

stat.ME2018

Simultaneous multiple change-point and factor analysis for high-dimensional time series

Matteo Barigozzi, Haeran Cho, Piotr Fryzlewicz

We propose the first comprehensive treatment of high-dimensional time series factor models with multiple change-points in their second-order structure. We operate under the most fl…

stat.ME2020

Large-Dimensional Dynamic Factor Models: Estimation of Impulse-Response Functions with Cointegrated Factors

Matteo Barigozzi, Marco Lippi, Matteo Luciani

We study a large-dimensional Dynamic Factor Model where: (i)~the vector of factors is and driven by a number of shocks that is smaller than the dimension of $\…

econ.EM2025

Factor Network Autoregressions

Matteo Barigozzi, Giuseppe Cavaliere, Graziano Moramarco

We propose a factor network autoregressive (FNAR) model for time series with complex network structures. The coefficients of the model reflect many different types of connections b…

q-fin.ST2016

Networks, Dynamic Factors, and the Volatility Analysis of High-Dimensional Financial Series

Matteo Barigozzi, Marc Hallin

We consider weighted directed networks for analysing, over the period 2000-2013, the interdependencies between volatilities of a large panel of stocks belonging to the S\&P100 inde…

econ.EM2024

Quasi Maximum Likelihood Estimation of High-Dimensional Factor Models: A Critical Review

Matteo Barigozzi

We review Quasi Maximum Likelihood estimation of factor models for high-dimensional panels of time series. We consider two cases: (1) estimation when no dynamic model for the facto…

econ.EM2024

Dynamic Factor Models: a Genealogy

Matteo Barigozzi, Marc Hallin

Dynamic factor models have been developed out of the need of analyzing and forecasting time series in increasingly high dimensions. While mathematical statisticians faced with infe…

physics.soc-ph2019

Maximum entropy approaches for the study of triadic motifs in the Mergers & Acquisitions network

Ihusan Adam, Stefano Garlaschi, Jian-Hong Lin +4

In the past years statistical physics has been successfully applied for complex networks modelling. In particular, it has been shown that the maximum entropy principle can be explo…

math.ST2017

Dynamic Factor Models, Cointegration, and Error Correction Mechanisms

Matteo Barigozzi, Marco Lippi, Matteo Luciani

The paper studies Non-Stationary Dynamic Factor Models such that the factors are and singular, i.e. has dimension and is driven by a -dime…

econ.EM2025

The Dynamic, the Static, and the Weak: Factor models and the analysis of high-dimensional time series

Matteo Barigozzi, Marc Hallin

Several fundamental and closely interconnected issues related to factor models are reviewed and discussed: dynamic versus static loadings, rate-strong versus rate-weak factors, the…

econ.EM2024

Asymptotic equivalence of Principal Components and Quasi Maximum Likelihood estimators in Large Approximate Factor Models

Matteo Barigozzi

This paper investigates the properties of Quasi Maximum Likelihood estimation of an approximate factor model for an -dimensional vector of stationary time series. We prove that…

stat.ME2017

Common factors, trends, and cycles in large datasets

Matteo Barigozzi, Matteo Luciani

This paper considers a non-stationary dynamic factor model for large datasets to disentangle long-run from short-run co-movements. We first propose a new Quasi Maximum Likelihood e…

econ.EM2026

Principal Component Analysis for High-Dimensional Approximate Factor Models in Time Series: Assumptions, Asymptotic Theory, and Identification

Matteo Barigozzi

We consider estimation of large approximate factor models in high-dimensional panels of stationary time series using Principal Component Analysis (PCA). We review the key results e…

stat.AP2026

Predicting Energy Demand with Tensor Factor Models

Mattia Banin, Matteo Barigozzi, Luca Trapin

Hourly consumption from multiple providers displays pronounced intra-day, intra-week, and annual seasonalities, as well as strong cross-sectional correlations. We introduce a novel…

stat.ME2023

General Spatio-Temporal Factor Models for High-Dimensional Random Fields on a Lattice

Matteo Barigozzi, Davide La Vecchia, Hang Liu

Motivated by the need for analysing large spatio-temporal panel data, we introduce a novel dimensionality reduction methodology for -dimensional random fields observed across a…

econ.EM2026

Large datasets for the Euro Area and its member countries and the dynamic effects of the common monetary policy

Matteo Barigozzi, Claudio Lissona, Lorenzo Tonni

We introduce EA-MD-QD, a new publicly available dataset comprising 1136 macroeconomic time series for the euro area (EA) and its ten largest member countries observed at monthly or…

stat.ME2025

Moving sum procedure for multiple change point detection in large factor models

Matteo Barigozzi, Haeran Cho, Lorenzo Trapani

This paper proposes a moving sum methodology for detecting multiple change points in high-dimensional time series under a factor model, where changes are attributed to those in loa…

stat.ME2025

FNETS: Factor-adjusted network estimation and forecasting for high-dimensional time series

Matteo Barigozzi, Haeran Cho, Dom Owens

We propose FNETS, a methodology for network estimation and forecasting of high-dimensional time series exhibiting strong serial- and cross-sectional correlations. We operate under…

math.ST2024

Quasi Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Inference of Large Approximate Dynamic Factor Models via the EM algorithm

Matteo Barigozzi, Matteo Luciani

We study estimation of large Dynamic Factor models implemented through the Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm, jointly with the Kalman smoother. We prove that as both the cros…

econ.EM2019

Quasi Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Non-Stationary Large Approximate Dynamic Factor Models

Matteo Barigozzi, Matteo Luciani

This paper considers estimation of large dynamic factor models with common and idiosyncratic trends by means of the Expectation Maximization algorithm, implemented jointly with the…