Risk management with high-dimensional vine copulas: An analysis of the Euro Stoxx 50

Brechmann Eike Christain () and Czado Claudia
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Brechmann Eike Christain: Technische Universität München
Czado Claudia: Technische Universität München

Statistics & Risk Modeling, 2013, vol. 30, issue 4, 307-342

Abstract: The demand for an accurate financial risk management involving larger numbers of assets is strong not only in view of the financial crisis of 2007–2009. Especially dependencies among assets have not been captured adequately. While standard multivariate copulas have added some flexibility, this flexibility is insufficient in higher dimensional applications. Vine copulas can fill this gap by benefiting from the rich class of existing bivariate parametric copula families. Exploiting this in combination with GARCH models for the margins, we develop a regular vine copula based factor model for asset returns, the Regular Vine Market Sector model, which is motivated by the classical CAPM and shown to be superior to the CAVA model proposed by Heinen and Valdesogo (2009). The model can also be used to separate the systematic and idiosyncratic risk of specific stocks, and we explicitly discuss how vine copula models can be employed for active and passive portfolio management. In particular, Value-at-Risk forecasting and asset allocation are treated in detail. All developed models and methods are used to analyze the Euro Stoxx 50 index, a major market indicator for the Eurozone. Relevant benchmark models such as the popular DCC model and the common Student's t copula are taken into account.

Keywords: Vines; factor model; Value-at-Risk; portfolio management; Vines; factor model; Value-at-Risk; portfolio management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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