Multiple risk factor dependence structures: copulas and related properties

DOI10.1016/J.INSMATHECO.2017.03.003zbMATH Open1394.62149arXiv1610.02126OpenAlexW2529535092MaRDI QIDQ2397858FDOQ2397858

Authors: Jianxi Su, Edward Furman 

Publication date: 24 May 2017

Published in: Insurance Mathematics \& Economics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: 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 copulas toolbox is strong. The ubiquitous applications of the Gaussian copula is just one illuminating example. Speaking generally, a `good' copula should conform to the problem at hand, allow for asymmetry in the domain of definition and exhibit some extent of tail dependence. In this paper we introduce and study a new class of Multiple Risk Factor (MRF) copula functions, which we show are exactly such. Namely, the MRF copulas (1) arise from a number of meaningful default risk specification with stochastic default barriers, (2) are in general non-exchangeable and (3) possess a variety of tail dependences. That being said, the MRF copulas turn out to be surprisingly tractable analytically.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.02126

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zbMATH Keywords

factor modelsArchimedean copulasmultivariate distributionsdefault riskMarshall-Olkin copulas(tail) dependence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multivariate distribution of statistics (62H10) Characterization and structure theory for multivariate probability distributions; copulas (62H05) Applications of statistics to actuarial sciences and financial mathematics (62P05)

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