Risk factors data used in the GVAR-ATSM from Candelon and Moura (2024, JFEC)
data("GVARFactors")List of risk factors organized for GVAR estimation. It includes global unspanned factors (economic activity, inflation) and domestic factors—both unspanned (economic activity, inflation) and spanned (level, slope, curvature) with their starred counterparts. The dataset covers Brazil, China, Mexico, and Uruguay at a monthly frequency from June 2004 to January 2020.
Candelon, B. and Moura, R. (2024) "A Multicountry Model of the Term Structures of Interest Rates with a GVAR". (Journal of Financial Econometrics)