Testing for lower tail dependence in extreme value models

2019 ◽  
Vol 89 (13) ◽  
pp. 2583-2593
Author(s):  
M. Bolbolian Ghalibaf
Keyword(s):  
Tail Dependence ◽  
Extreme Value ◽  
Lower Tail

scholarly journals Assessing Market Risk in BRICS and Oil Markets: An Application of Markov Switching and Vine Copula

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
John Weirstrass Muteba Mwamba ◽  
Sutene Mwambetania Mwambi
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Crude Oil ◽  
South African ◽  
Asset Allocation ◽  
Markov Switching ◽  
Tail Dependence ◽  
Lower Tail ◽  
Oil Market ◽  
Oil Markets ◽  
Vine Copula

This paper investigates the dynamic tail dependence risk between BRICS economies and the world energy market, in the context of the COVID-19 financial crisis of 2020, in order to determine optimal investment decisions based on risk metrics. For this purpose, we employ a combination of novel statistical techniques, including Vector Autoregressive (VAR), Markov-switching GJR-GARCH, and vine copula methods. Using a data set consisting of daily stock and world crude oil prices, we find evidence of a structure break in the volatility process, consisting of high and low persistence volatility processes, with a high persistence in the probabilities of transition between lower and higher volatility regimes, as well as the presence of leverage effects. Furthermore, our results based on the C-vine copula confirm the existence of two types of tail dependence: symmetric tail dependence between South Africa and China, South Africa and Russia, and South Africa and India, and asymmetric lower tail dependence between South Africa and Brazil, and South Africa and crude oil. For the purpose of diversification in these markets, we formulate an asset allocation problem using raw returns, MS GARCH returns, and C-vine and R-vine copula-based returns, and optimize it using a Particle Swarm optimization algorithm with a rebalancing strategy. The results demonstrate an inverse relationship between the risk contribution and asset allocation of South Africa and the crude oil market, supporting the existence of a lower tail dependence between them. This suggests that, when South African stocks are in distress, investors tend to shift their holdings in the oil market. Similar results are found between Russia and crude oil, as well as Brazil and crude oil. In the symmetric tail, South African asset allocation is found to have a well-diversified relationship with that of China, Russia, and India, suggesting that these three markets might be good investment destinations when things are not good in South Africa, and vice versa.

Multivariate extremes, aggregation and dependence in elliptical distributions

2002 ◽  
Vol 34 (03) ◽  
pp. 587-608 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrik Hult ◽  
Filip Lindskog
Keyword(s):  
Random Vector ◽  
Positive Constant ◽  
Tail Dependence ◽  
Constant Factor ◽  
Dispersion Matrix ◽  
Elliptical Distributions ◽  
Spectral Measures ◽  
Lower Tail ◽  
Explicit Formulae ◽  
Dependence Properties

In this paper, we clarify dependence properties of elliptical distributions by deriving general but explicit formulae for the coefficients of upper and lower tail dependence and spectral measures with respect to different norms. We show that an elliptically distributed random vector is regularly varying if and only if the bivariate marginal distributions have tail dependence. Furthermore, the tail dependence coefficients are fully determined by the tail index of the random vector (or equivalently of its components) and the linear correlation coefficient. Whereas Kendall's tau is invariant in the class of elliptical distributions with continuous marginals and a fixed dispersion matrix, we show that this is not true for Spearman's rho. We also show that sums of elliptically distributed random vectors with the same dispersion matrix (up to a positive constant factor) remain elliptical if they are dependent only through their radial parts.

scholarly journals Extremal behavior of Archimedean copulas

2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Larsson ◽  
Johanna Nešlehová
Keyword(s):  
Domain Of Attraction ◽  
Tail Dependence ◽  
Dependence Structure ◽  
Tail Behavior ◽  
Archimedean Copulas ◽  
Radial Part ◽  
Stochastic Representation ◽  
Lower Tail ◽  
Extremal Behavior ◽  
Practical Implications

We show how the extremal behavior of d-variate Archimedean copulas can be deduced from their stochastic representation as the survival dependence structure of an ℓ1-symmetric distribution (see McNeil and Nešlehová (2009)). We show that the extremal behavior of the radial part of the representation is determined by its Williamson d-transform. This leads in turn to simple proofs and extensions of recent results characterizing the domain of attraction of Archimedean copulas, their upper and lower tail-dependence indices, as well as their associated threshold copulas. We outline some of the practical implications of their results for the construction of Archimedean models with specific tail behavior and give counterexamples of Archimedean copulas whose coefficient of lower tail dependence does not exist.

scholarly journals On Conditional Value at Risk (CoVaR) for tail-dependent copulas

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Jaworski
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Value At Risk ◽  
Tail Dependence ◽  
Extreme Value ◽  
Conditional Value At Risk ◽  
Dependence Function ◽  
Conditioning Event

Abstract The paper deals with Conditional Value at Risk (CoVaR) for copulas with nontrivial tail dependence. We show that both in the standard and the modified settings, the tail dependence function determines the limiting properties of CoVaR as the conditioning event becomes more extreme. The results are illustrated with examples using the extreme value, conic and truncation invariant families of bivariate tail-dependent copulas.

TAIL AND NONTAIL MEMORY WITH APPLICATIONS TO EXTREME VALUE AND ROBUST STATISTICS

2011 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 844-884 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan B. Hill
Keyword(s):  
Least Squares ◽  
Central Limit ◽  
Robust Statistics ◽  
Tail Dependence ◽  
Extreme Value ◽  
Limit Theory ◽  
Trimmed Sums ◽  
Garch Processes ◽  
Heavy Tailed ◽  
Tail Events

New notions of tail and nontail dependence are used to characterize separately extremal and nonextremal information, including tail log-exceedances and events, and tail-trimmed levels. We prove that near epoch dependence (McLeish, 1975; Gallant and White, 1988) and L0-approximability (Pötscher and Prucha, 1991) are equivalent for tail events and tail-trimmed levels, ensuring a Gaussian central limit theory for important extreme value and robust statistics under general conditions. We apply the theory to characterize the extremal and nonextremal memory properties of possibly very heavy-tailed GARCH processes and distributed lags. This in turn is used to verify Gaussian limits for tail index, tail dependence, and tail-trimmed sums of these data, allowing for Gaussian asymptotics for a new tail-trimmed least squares estimator for heavy-tailed processes.

scholarly journals Forecasting portfolio-Value-at-Risk with nonparametric lower tail dependence estimates

2015 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 129-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Friedrich Siburg ◽  
Pavel Stoimenov ◽  
Gregor N.F. Weiß
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Value At Risk ◽  
Tail Dependence ◽  
Lower Tail

scholarly journals Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies—Not for the Faint-Hearted

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joerg Osterrieder ◽  
Martin Strika ◽  
Julian Lorenz
Keyword(s):  
Financial Engineering ◽  
Heavy Tails ◽  
Tail Dependence ◽  
Extreme Value ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Extreme Value Analysis ◽  
Value Analysis ◽  
Risk Characteristics ◽  
Asset Class ◽  
Multivariate Extreme Value

Cryptocurrencies became popular with the emergence of Bitcoin and have shown an unprecedented growth over the last few years. As of November 2016, more than 720 cryptocurrencies exist, with Bitcoin still being the most popular one. We provide both a statistical analysis as well as an extreme value analysis of the returns of the most important cryptocurrencies. A particular focus is on the tail risk characteristics and we will provide an in-depth univariate and multivariate extreme value analysis. The tail dependence of cryptocurrencies is investigated (using both empirical and Gaussian copulas). For investors—especially institutional ones—as well as regulators, an understanding of the risk and tail characteristics are of utmost importance. For cryptocurrencies to become a mainstream investable asset class, studying these properties is necessary. Our findings show that cryptocurrencies exhibit strong non-normal characteristics, large tail dependencies, depending on the particular cryptocurrencies and heavy tails. Statistical similarities can be observed for cryptocurrencies that share the same underlying technology. This has implications for risk management, financial engineering (such as derivatives on cryptocurrencies)—both from an investor’s as well as from a regulator’s point of view. To our knowledge, this is the first detailed study looking at the extreme value behaviour of cryptocurrencies, their correlations and tail dependencies as well as their statistical properties.

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