The t copula with multiple parameters of degrees of freedom: bivariate characteristics and application to risk management

DOI10.1080/14697680903085544zbMATH Open1210.91060arXiv0710.3959OpenAlexW3098006641MaRDI QIDQ2994844FDOQ2994844

Authors: Xiaolin Luo, Pavel V. Shevchenko 

Publication date: 29 April 2011

Published in: Quantitative Finance (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The t copula is often used in risk management as it allows for modelling tail dependence between risks and it is simple to simulate and calibrate. However, the use of a standard t copula is often criticized due to its restriction of having a single parameter for the degrees of freedom (dof) that may limit its capability to model the tail dependence structure in a multivariate case. To overcome this problem, grouped t copula was proposed recently, where risks are grouped a priori in such a way that each group has a standard t copula with its specific dof parameter. In this paper we propose the use of a grouped t copula, where each group consists of one risk factor only, so that a priori grouping is not required. The copula characteristics in the bivariate case are studied. We explain simulation and calibration procedures, including a simulation study on finite sample properties of the maximum likelihood estimators and Kendall's tau approximation. This new copula can be significantly different from the standard t copula in terms of risk measures such as tail dependence, value at risk and expected shortfall. Keywords: grouped t copula, tail dependence, risk management.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.3959

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zbMATH Keywords

asymmetrytail dependencerisk managementgrouped \(t\) copula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characterization and structure theory for multivariate probability distributions; copulas (62H05) Measures of association (correlation, canonical correlation, etc.) (62H20) Applications of statistics to actuarial sciences and financial mathematics (62P05)

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Cited In (14)

• \(t\)-copula from the viewpoint of tail dependence matrices
• On Pearson-Kotz Dirichlet distributions
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• A novel positive dependence property and its impact on a popular class of concordance measures
• Maximum likelihood estimation of skew-t copulas with its applications to stock returns
• Corrigendum to: ``Tail dependence of skewed grouped \(t\)-distributions
• Statistical Inference for a Relative Risk Measure
• Bayesian model choice of grouped \(t\)-copula
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• Jackknife empirical likelihood test for the equality of degrees of freedom in t-copulas

Uses Software

• QUADPACK
• QRM

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