Serena Ng

Columbia Business School - Economics Department

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1.

The Empirical Risk-Return Relation: A Factor Analysis Approach

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The Empirical Risk-Return Relation: A Factor Analysis Approach

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 14 Jul 2005
Serena Ng and Sydney C. Ludvigson
Columbia Business School - Economics Department and New York University - Department of Economics
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Risk-premia, excess returns, stock market volatility

The Empirical Risk-Return Relation: A Factor Analysis Approach

NBER Working Paper No. w11477
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 09 Aug 2005 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2015
Serena Ng and Sydney C. Ludvigson
Columbia Business School - Economics Department and New York University - Department of Economics
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Opportunities and Challenges: Lessons from Analyzing Terabytes of Scanner Data

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Opportunities and Challenges: Lessons from Analyzing Terabytes of Scanner Data

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 04 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2017
Serena Ng
Columbia Business School - Economics Department
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Opportunities and Challenges: Lessons from Analyzing Terabytes of Scanner Data

NBER Working Paper No. w23673
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 17 Aug 2017
Serena Ng
Columbia Business School - Economics Department
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A Panic Attack on Unit Roots and Cointegration

Boston College Working Paper No. 519
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 23 Dec 2001
Jushan Bai and Serena Ng
New York University (NYU) - Department of Economics and Columbia Business School - Economics Department
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Panel data, common factors, common trends, principal components

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Dynamic Hierarchical Factor Models

FRB of New York Staff Report No. 412
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 15 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 31 Jul 2011
Emanuel Moench, Serena Ng and Simon Potter
Deutsche Bundesbank, Columbia Business School - Economics Department and Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics
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forecasting, monitoring, comovements, large dimensional panel, diffusion index

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Measuring Uncertainty

NBER Working Paper No. w19456
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 20 Sep 2013
Kyle Jurado, Sydney C. Ludvigson and Serena Ng
Duke University - Department of Economics, New York University - Department of Economics and Columbia Business School - Economics Department
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Macro Factors in Bond Risk Premia

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Macro Factors in Bond Risk Premia

NBER Working Paper No. w11703
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 14 Sep 2006 Last Revised: 25 Jun 2010
Serena Ng and Sydney C. Ludvigson
Columbia Business School - Economics Department and New York University - Department of Economics
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Macro Factors in Bond Risk Premia

The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 22, Issue 12, pp. 5027-5067, 2009
Posted: 24 Nov 2009
Sydney C. Ludvigson and Serena Ng
New York University - Department of Economics and Columbia Business School - Economics Department

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E0, E4, G10, G12

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Fred-Md: A Monthly Database for Macroeconomic Research

FRB St. Louis Working Paper No. 2015-12
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 19 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2019
Michael W. McCracken and Serena Ng
Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and Columbia Business School - Economics Department
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diffusion index, forecasting, big data, factors.

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Can Sticky Prices Account for the Variations and Persistence in Real Exchange Rates

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Can Sticky Prices Account for the Variations and Persistence in Real Exchange Rates

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 09 Mar 2002
Serena Ng
Columbia Business School - Economics Department
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persistence, half-lives, rigidities, real exchange rates

Can Sticky Prices Account for the Variations and Persistence in Real Exchange Rates

Posted: 24 Jun 2002
Serena Ng
Columbia Business School - Economics Department

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persistence, half-lives, rigidities, real exchange rates

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A Factor Analysis of Bond Risk Premia

NBER Working Paper No. w15188
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 28 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 04 Jul 2010
Sydney C. Ludvigson and Serena Ng
New York University - Department of Economics and Columbia Business School - Economics Department
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Are More Data Always Better for Factor Analysis?

NBER Working Paper No. w9829
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 14 Jul 2003
Jean Boivin and Serena Ng
HEC Montreal and Columbia Business School - Economics Department
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Estimation of DSGE Models When the Data are Persistent

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Estimation of DSGE Models When the Data are Persistent

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 25 Jul 2009
Serena Ng and Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Columbia Business School - Economics Department and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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DSGE, estimation, persistence

Estimation of DSGE Models When the Data are Persistent

NBER Working Paper No. w15187
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 28 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 04 Jul 2010
Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Serena Ng
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and Columbia Business School - Economics Department
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Facts and Challenges from the Great Recession for Forecasting and Macroeconomic Modeling

NBER Working Paper No. w19469
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 02 Oct 2013
Serena Ng and Jonathan H. Wright
Columbia Business School - Economics Department and Johns Hopkins University - Department of Economics
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Understanding and Comparing Factor-Based Forecasts

NBER Working Paper No. w11285
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 02 Jun 2005
Jean Boivin and Serena Ng
HEC Montreal and Columbia Business School - Economics Department
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A Machine Learning Analysis of Seasonal and Cyclical Sales in Weekly Scanner Data

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 24 Mar 2019
Rishab Guha and Serena Ng
Harvard University and Columbia Business School - Economics Department
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Seasonal Adjustment, Random Forest, Demand System

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Uncertainty and Business Cycles: Exogenous Impulse or Endogenous Response?

NBER Working Paper No. w21803
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 14 Dec 2015
Sydney C. Ludvigson, Sai Ma and Serena Ng
New York University - Department of Economics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and Columbia Business School - Economics Department
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Parametric and Non-Parametric Approaches to Price and Tax Reform

NBER Working Paper No. w5564
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 24 Sep 1996 Last Revised: 01 Oct 2010
Angus Deaton and Serena Ng
Princeton University and Columbia Business School - Economics Department
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Minimum Distance Estimation of Dynamic Models with Errors-in-Variables

FRB Atlanta Working Paper No. 2014-11
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 04 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2015
Nikolay Gospodinov, Ivana Komunjer and Serena Ng
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Economics and Columbia Business School - Economics Department
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measurement error, minimum distance, simulation estimation, dynamic panel

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Minimum Distance Estimation of Possibly Non-Invertible Moving Average Models

FRB Atlanta Working Paper No. 2013-11
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 22 Mar 2015
Nikolay Gospodinov and Serena Ng
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Columbia Business School - Economics Department
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GMM, simulation-based estimation, non-invertibility, identification, non-Gaussian errors, generalized lambda distribution

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Level and Volatility Factors in Macroeconomic Data

NBER Working Paper No. w23672
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 17 Aug 2017
Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Serena Ng
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and Columbia Business School - Economics Department
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Shock Restricted Structural Vector-Autoregressions

NBER Working Paper No. w23225
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 19 Mar 2017
Sydney C. Ludvigson, Sai Ma and Serena Ng
New York University - Department of Economics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and Columbia Business School - Economics Department
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A Note on the Selection of Time Series Models

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 11 Jan 2005
Serena Ng and Pierre Perron
Columbia Business School - Economics Department and Boston University - Department of Economics
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Detecting Information Pooling: Analysts' Forecasts after Brokerage Firm Mergers

The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2007
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 20 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 26 Apr 2016
Serena Ng and Matthew Shum
Columbia Business School - Economics Department and California Institute of Technology
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information pooling, earnings forecasts, brokerage mergers

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Forecasting Autoregressive Time Series in the Presence of Deterministic Components

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 02 Dec 2002
Serena Ng and Timothy J. Vogelsang
Columbia Business School - Economics Department and Cornell University
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Forecasting, Trends, Unit root, GLS estimation

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Estimators for Persistent and Possibly Non-Stationary Data with Classical Properties

NBER Working Paper No. w17424
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 21 Sep 2011
Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Anna Mikusheva and Serena Ng
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and Columbia Business School - Economics Department
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Covid19 and the Macroeconomic Effects of Costly Disasters

NBER Working Paper No. w26987
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 13 Apr 2020
Sydney C. Ludvigson, Sai Ma and Serena Ng
New York University - Department of Economics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and Columbia Business School - Economics Department
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Fred-Qd: A Quarterly Database for Macroeconomic Research

NBER Working Paper No. w26872
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 23 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 30 Mar 2020
Michael W. McCracken and Serena Ng
Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and Columbia Business School - Economics Department
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A Machine Learning Analysis of Seasonal and Cyclical Sales in Weekly Scanner Data

NBER Working Paper No. w25899
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 07 Jun 2019
Rishab Guha and Serena Ng
Harvard University and Columbia Business School - Economics Department
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Latent Dirichlet Analysis of Categorical Survey Expectations

NBER Working Paper No. w27182
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 18 May 2020
Evan Munro and Serena Ng
Stanford University and Columbia Business School - Economics Department
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A Hierarchical Factor Analysis of U.S. Housing Market Dynamics

Econometrics Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. C1-C24, 2011
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 28 Feb 2011
Emanuel Moench and Serena Ng
Deutsche Bundesbank and Columbia Business School - Economics Department
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FAVAR, Hierarchical factor models, Mixed sampling frequency, Missing values

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An Econometric Perspective on Algorithmic Subsampling

Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 12, pp. 45-80, 2020
Posted: 14 Aug 2020
Sokbae Lee and Serena Ng
Columbia University and Columbia Business School - Economics Department

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Viewpoint: Boosting Recessions (Prévoir les Recessions)

Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, Vol. 47, Issue 1, pp. 1-34, 2014
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 28 Jan 2014
Serena Ng
Columbia Business School - Economics Department
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Panel Cointegration with Global Stochastic Trends

Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 149, No. 1, 2009
Posted: 21 Apr 2011
Jushan Bai, Chihwa Kao and Serena Ng
New York University (NYU) - Department of Economics, Syracuse University and Columbia Business School - Economics Department

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Intergenerational Linkages in Consumption Behavior

Posted: 19 Nov 2003
Andreas Waldkirch, Serena Ng and Donald Cox
Colby College - Department of Economics, Columbia Business School - Economics Department and Boston College - Department of Economics

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family, income, tastes, habits, learning

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Determining the Number of Factors in Approximate Factor Models

Posted: 15 May 2002
Jushan Bai and Serena Ng
New York University (NYU) - Department of Economics and Columbia Business School - Economics Department

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Excess Sensitivity and Asymmetries in Consumption: An Empirical Investigation

JOURNAL OF MONEY, CREDIT, AND BANKING, Vol. 29, No. 2, May 1997
Posted: 05 Feb 1997
René Garcia, Annamaria Lusardi and Serena Ng
Université de Montréal - CIREQ - Département de sciences économiques, George Washington University - Department of Accountancy and Columbia Business School - Economics Department

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