Upper comonotonicity and convex upper bounds for sums of random variables

Jing Dong, Ka Chun Cheung and Hailiang Yang

Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 2010, vol. 47, issue 2, 159-166

Abstract: It is well-known that if a random vector with given marginal distributions is comonotonic, it has the largest sum with respect to convex order. However, replacing the (unknown) copula by the comonotonic copula will in most cases not reflect reality well. For instance, in an insurance context we may have partial information about the dependence structure of different risks in the lower tail. In this paper, we extend the aforementioned result, using the concept of upper comonotonicity, to the case where the dependence structure of a random vector in the lower tail is already known. Since upper comonotonic random vectors have comonotonic behavior in the upper tail, we are able to extend several well-known results of comonotonicity to upper comonotonicity. As an application, we construct different increasing convex upper bounds for sums of random variables and compare these bounds in terms of increasing convex order.

Keywords: Comonotonicity; Upper; comonotonicity; Tail; dependence; Convex; order (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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