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Monthly equal-weighted returns on the 48 Fama-French industry portfolios from the replication package of He, Huang, Li, Zhou (2023). Used as the target return matrix (target) in the RRA, PLS, and PCA estimators.

Usage

he2023_ff48ew

Format

A data.frame with 528 rows and 49 variables:

date

First day of each month, class Date.

Agric

Agriculture portfolio return (percent).

Food

Food products portfolio return (percent).

...

46 additional industry portfolio returns (percent).

Source

He, Huang, Li, Zhou (2023) replication package, https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/mnsc.2022.4563.

References

He, J., Huang, J., Li, F., and Zhou, G. (2023). Shrinking Factor Dimension: A Reduced-Rank Approach. Management Science, 69(9). doi:10.1287/mnsc.2022.4563

Examples

head(he2023_ff48ew[, 1:5])
#>         date Agric  Food  Soda  Beer
#> 1 1974-01-01 14.42 13.65 15.17 11.52
#> 2 1974-02-01  7.20  4.65 -0.51 -0.95
#> 3 1974-03-01 -0.84  0.63  1.43 -0.53
#> 4 1974-04-01 -7.35 -4.21 -6.60 -5.97
#> 5 1974-05-01 -6.97 -5.95 -7.45 -5.07
#> 6 1974-06-01 -6.63 -1.83 -0.90 -4.15