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New method handles dependent censoring without specifying copula.
The standard intensity-based approach for modeling defaults is generalized by making the deterministic term structure of the survival probability stochastic via a common jump process. The survival copula of the vector of default times is derived and it is shown to be explicit and of the functional form as dealt with in…
HACSurv models dependencies between competing risks and censoring for improved survival analysis.
Archimedean copulas are popular in the world of multivariate modelling as a result of their breadth, tractability, and flexibility. A. J. McNeil and J. Nešlehová (2009) showed that the class of Archimedean copulas coincides with the class of multivariate -norm symmetric distributions. Building upon their result…
This paper deals with dependence across marginally exponentially distributed arrival times, such as default times in financial modeling or inter-failure times in reliability theory. We explore the relationship between dependence and the possibility to sample final multivariate survival in a long time-interval as a sequ…
New metric reduces estimation error in survival model evaluation.
New estimator for survival function with missing not at random censoring indicators.
This paper improves tail dependence analysis by introducing a path-based approach.
We discuss two distinct approaches, for distorting risk measures of sums of dependent random variables, which preserve the property of coherence. The first, based on distorted expectations, operates on the survival function of the sum. The second, simultaneously applies the distortion on the survival function of the su…
Paper compares smallest claim amounts from two interdependent portfolios.
Heterogeneity of economic agents is emphasized in a new trend of macroeconomics. Accordingly the new emerging discipline requires one to replace the production function, one of key ideas in the conventional economics, by an alternative which can take an explicit account of distribution of firms' production activities. …
Paper introduces MTCM to measure multivariate tail dependence.
We prove that the default times (or any of their minima) in the dynamic Gaussian copula model of Cr{é}pey, Jeanblanc, and Wu (2013) are invariance times in the sense of Cr{é}pey and Song (2017), with related invariance probability measures different from the pricing measure. This reflects a departure from the immersion…
First passage models, where corporate assets undergo correlated random walks and a company defaults if its assets fall below a threshold provide an attractive framework for modeling the default process. Typical one year default correlations are small, i.e., of order a few percent, but nonetheless including correlations…
Paper introduces symmetric divergence link models for probability distributions.
Copula-based fusion improves breast cancer risk stratification.
Temporal coarse-graining of multi-sector default count data generates effective correlation matrices and rank copulas.
This paper models default data to capture dynamic dependence across sectors.
New copulas model external shocks with different effects on system components.
Extends insurance-finance arbitrage concept to include model uncertainty.
Levy copulas are the most general concept to capture jump dependence in multivariate Levy processes. They translate the intuition and many features of the copula concept into a time series setting. A challenge faced by both, distributional and Levy copulas, is to find flexible but still applicable models for higher dim…
In this paper, we introduce two alternative extensions of the classical univariate Value-at-Risk (VaR) in a multivariate setting. The two proposed multivariate VaR are vector-valued measures with the same dimension as the underlying risk portfolio. The lower-orthant VaR is constructed from level sets of multivariate di…
A new copula, the checkerboard copula, maximizes entropy and preserves dependence.
This paper proposes a new class of copulas which characterize the set of all twice continuously differentiable copulas. We show that our proposed new class of copulas is a new generalized copula family that include not only asymmetric copulas but also all smooth copula families available in the current literature. Spea…
We provide a set of copulas that can be interpreted as having the negative extreme dependence. This set of copulas is interesting because it coincides with countermonotonic copula for a bivariate case, and more importantly, is shown to be minimal in concordance ordering in the sense that no copula exists which is stric…
This paper develops copula-based models for forecasting multivariate realized volatility.
We propose to use nonparametric Bernstein copulas as bivariate pair-copulas in high-dimensional vine models. The resulting smooth and nonparametric vine copulas completely obviate the error-prone need for choosing the pair-copulas from parametric copula families. By means of a simulation study and an empirical analysis…
The paper proposes a method to model financial data asynchronously using copulas.
Paper introduces new copulas from shock models, improving on maxmin copulas.
All too often measuring statistical dependencies between financial time series is reduced to a linear correlation coefficient. However this may not capture all facets of reality. We study empirical dependencies of daily stock returns by their pairwise copulas. Here we investigate particularly to which extent the non-st…
Paper compares MCMC-based copula methods for exchange option pricing.
A new copula estimation method using classification.
The study models insurance dependence using Bernstein copulas.
We introduce a new functional measure of tail dependence for weakly dependent (asymptotically independent) random vectors, termed weak tail dependence function. The new measure is defined at the level of copulas and we compute it for several copula families such as the Gaussian copula, copulas of a class of Gaussian mi…
This paper explores non-exchangeability in copulas from shock models and computes asymmetry bounds.
Copulas allow to learn marginal distributions separately from the multivariate dependence structure (copula) that links them together into a density function. Vine factorizations ease the learning of high-dimensional copulas by constructing a hierarchy of conditional bivariate copulas. However, to simplify inference, i…
Paper uses a new copula to model risk aggregation and capital allocation.
Study uses copulas and DCC-GARCH for multivariate risk analysis of VaR and CVaR.
A new copula minimizes distance between distributions.
Copulas have become an important tool in the modern best practice Enterprise Risk Management, often supplanting other approaches to modelling stochastic dependence. However, choosing the `right' copula is not an easy task, and the temptation to prefer a tractable rather than a meaningful candidate from the encompassing…
A new class of bivariate distributions is introduced that extends the Generalized Marshall-Olkin distributions of Li and Pellerey (2011). Their dependence structure is studied through the analysis of the copula functions that they induce. These copulas, that include as special cases the Generalized Marshall-Olkin copul…
Adaptive Bernstein copulas improve risk management by preventing overfitting and reducing simulation effort.
Using one of the key property of copulas that they remain invariant under an arbitrary monotonous change of variable, we investigate the null hypothesis that the dependence between financial assets can be modeled by the Gaussian copula. We find that most pairs of currencies and pairs of major stocks are compatible with…
Study uses vine copulas to optimize financial portfolios during and after the financial crisis.
Gaussian copulas are widely used in the industry to correlate two random variables when there is no prior knowledge about the co-dependence between them. The perturbed Gaussian copula approach allows introducing the skew information of both random variables into the co-dependence structure. The analytical expression of…
New copula models learn to forget dependencies, improving data representation.
Paper proposes copula-based models for analyzing multivariate zero-inflated continuous data.