Interval estimation for a measure of tail dependence

Aiai Liu, Yanxi Hou and Liang Peng

Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 2015, vol. 64, issue C, 294-305

Abstract: Systemic risk concerns extreme co-movement of several financial variables, which involves characterizing tail dependence. The coefficient of tail dependence was proposed by Ledford and Tawn (1996, 1997) to distinguish asymptotic independence and asymptotic dependence. Recently a new measure based on the conditional Kendall’s tau was proposed by Asimit et al. (2015) to measure the tail dependence and to distinguish asymptotic independence and asymptotic dependence. For effectively constructing a confidence interval for this new measure, this paper proposes a smooth jackknife empirical likelihood method, which does not need to estimate any additional quantities such as asymptotic variance. A simulation study shows that the proposed method has a good finite sample performance.

Keywords: Conditional Kendall’s tau; Interval estimation; Jackknife empirical likelihood; Tail dependence; Extreme events (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.insmatheco.2015.05.014

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