A concept of copula robustness and its applications in quantitative risk management

Henryk Zähle ()
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Henryk Zähle: Saarland University

Finance and Stochastics, 2022, vol. 26, issue 4, No 4, 825-875

Abstract: Abstract In financial and actuarial applications, marginal risks and their dependence structure are often modelled separately. While it is sometimes reasonable to assume that the marginal distributions are ‘known’, it is usually quite involved to obtain information on the copula (dependence structure). Therefore copula models used in practice are quite often only rough guesses. For many purposes, it is thus relevant to know whether certain characteristics derived from d $d$ -variate risks are robust with respect to (at least small) deviations in the copula. In this article, a general concept of copula robustness is introduced and criteria for copula robustness are presented. These criteria are illustrated by means of several examples from quantitative risk management. The concept of aggregation robustness introduced by Embrechts et al. (Finance Stoch. 19:763–790, 2015) can be embedded in our framework of copula robustness.

Keywords: Copula; Fréchet class; L p $L^{p}$ -weak topology; Risk measure; Portfolio optimisation; 62H05; 60B10; 90C17; 91G70 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C02 C60 G11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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