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An empirical analysis of multivariate copula models
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Abstract Since the pioneering work of Embrechts and co-authors in 1999, copula models have enjoyed steadily increasing popularity in finance. Whereas copulas are well-studied in the bivariate case, the higher-dimensional case still offers several open issues and it is far from clear how to construct copulas ... view more
Since the pioneering work of Embrechts and co-authors in 1999, copula models have enjoyed steadily increasing popularity in finance. Whereas copulas are well-studied in the bivariate case, the higher-dimensional case still offers several open issues and it is far from clear how to construct copulas which sufficiently capture the characteristics of financial returns. For this reason, elliptical copulas (i.e. Gaussian and Student-t copula) still dominate both empirical and practical applications. On the other hand, several attractive construction schemes have appeared in the recent literature promising flexible but still manageable dependence models. The aim of this work is to empirically investigate whether these models are really capable of outperforming its benchmark, i.e. the Student-t copula and, in addition, to compare the fit of these different copula classes among themselves.... view less
Classification
Economic Statistics, Econometrics, Business Informatics
Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Economics
Method
theory application
Free Keywords
KS-copula; Hierarchical Archimedian; Product copulas; Pair-copula decomposition
Document language
English
Publication Year
2009
Page/Pages
p. 839-854
Journal
Quantitative Finance, 9 (2009) 7
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/14697680802595650
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)