One of the features inherent in nested Archimedean copulas, also called hierarchical Archimedean copulas, is their rooted tree structure. In this paper, a nonparametric, rank-based method to estimate this structure is developed. Our approach consists in representing the rooted tree structure as a set of trivariate structures that can be estimated individually. Indeed, for any triple of variable...

Given a dependent censored data (X, δ) = (min(T, C), I(T < C)) from an Archimedean copula model, we give general formulas for possible marginal survival functions of T and C. Based on our formulas, we can easily establish the relationship between all these survival functions and derive some useful identifiability results. Also based on our formulas, we propose a new estimator of the marginal su...

For random variables with Archimedean copula or survival copula, we develop the reversed hazard rate order and the hazard rate order on sample extremes in the context of proportional reversed hazard models and proportional hazard models, respectively. The likelihood ratio order on sample maximum is also investigated for the proportional reversed hazard model. Several numerical examples are pres...

This paper used different copula-based GARCH models (Copula-GARCH model and Copula-GJR-GARCH model) to analyze the dependence structure among gold price, stock price index of gold mining companies and Shanghai Composite Index in China. The empirical results found that the suitable margins were skew-t distribution, and the GJR-GARCH marginal distribution had better explanatory ability than the G...

Title of dissertation: EXTENDING THE LÉVY PROCESSES TO MULTIASSET PRODUCTS PRICING Qing Xia, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Dissertation directed by: Professor Dilip B. Madan Department of Finance Lévy processes have gained great success in pricing single asset options. In this thesis, we introduce a methodology enabling us to extend the single asset pricing technique based on Lévy processes to mul...

We investigate the dependent relationship between two failure time variables that truncate each other. Chaieb, Rivest, and Abdous (2006) proposed a semiparametric model under the so-called “semi-survival” Archimedean-copula assumption and discussed estimation of the association parameter, the truncation probability, and the marginal functions. Here the same model assumption is adopted but diffe...

The package copula (formerly nacopula) provides procedures for constructing nested Archimedean copulas in any dimensions and with any kind of nesting structure, generating vectors of random variates from the constructed objects, computing function values and probabilities of falling into hypercubes, as well as evaluation of characteristics such as Kendall’s tau and the tail-dependence coefficie...