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arXiv:1805.01104Mai 2018

Deep Learning in Characteristics-Sorted Factor Models

Guanhao Feng·Jingyu He·Nicholas G. Polson·Jianeng Xu
2018Ano
Economia & FinançasÁrea

This paper presents an augmented deep factor model that generates latent factors for cross-sectional asset pricing. The conventional security sorting on firm characteristics for constructing long-short factor portfolio weights is nonlinear modeling, while factors are treated as inputs in linear models. We provide a structural deep learning framework to generalize the complete mechanism for fitting cross-sectional returns by firm characteristics through generating risk factors -- hidden layers. Our model has an economic-guided objective function that minimizes aggregated realized pricing errors. Empirical results on high-dimensional characteristics demonstrate robust asset pricing performance and strong investment improvements by identifying important raw characteristic sources.