Hierarchies of Archimedean copulas

Savu Cornelia, Trede Mark


Abstract
We present a flexible class of hierarchical copulas capable of modelling multidimensional joint distributions of asset returns with a richer rank correlation structure than existing models. We derive estimators and simulation techniques. The methods are applied to an illustrative portfolio consisting of a subset of DAX stocks.

Keywords
Copulas Portfolio management Risk management Insurance mathematics goodness-of-fit parametric families



Publication type
Research article (journal)

Peer reviewed
Yes

Publication status
Published

Year
2010

Journal
Quantitative Finance

Volume
10

Issue
3

Start page
295

End page
304

Language
English

ISSN
1469-7688

DOI