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Investigating dynamic dependence using copulae
A general methodology for time series modelling is developed which works down from distributional
properties to implied structural models including the standard regression relationship. This
general to specific approach is important since it can avoid spurious assumptions such as linearity
in the form of the dynamic relationship between variables. It is based on splitting the multivariate
distribution of a time series into two parts: (i) the marginal unconditional distribution, (ii) the
serial dependence encompassed in a general function , the copula. General properties of the class of
copula functions that fulfill the necessary requirements for Markov chain construction are exposed.
Special cases for the gaussian copula with AR(p) dependence structure and for archimedean copulae
are presented. We also develop copula based dynamic dependency measures — auto-concordance
in place of autocorrelation. Finally, we provide empirical applications using financial returns and
transactions based forex data. Our model encompasses the AR(p) model and allows non-linearity.
Moreover, we introduce non-linear time dependence functions that generalize the autocorrelation
function
Copulas in finance and insurance
Copulas provide a potential useful modeling tool to represent the dependence structure
among variables and to generate joint distributions by combining given marginal
distributions. Simulations play a relevant role in finance and insurance. They are used to
replicate efficient frontiers or extremal values, to price options, to estimate joint risks, and so
on. Using copulas, it is easy to construct and simulate from multivariate distributions based
on almost any choice of marginals and any type of dependence structure. In this paper we
outline recent contributions of statistical modeling using copulas in finance and insurance.
We review issues related to the notion of copulas, copula families, copula-based dynamic and
static dependence structure, copulas and latent factor models and simulation of copulas.
Finally, we outline hot topics in copulas with a special focus on model selection and
goodness-of-fit testing
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