Model selection in sparse high-dimensional vine copula models with an application to portfolio risk

T. Nagler, C. Bumann and C. Czado

Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 2019, vol. 172, issue C, 180-192

Abstract: Vine copulas allow the construction of flexible dependence models for an arbitrary number of variables using only bivariate building blocks. The number of parameters in a vine copula model increases quadratically with the dimension, which poses challenges in high-dimensional applications. To alleviate the computational burden and risk of overfitting, we propose a modified Bayesian information criterion (BIC) tailored to sparse vine copula models. We argue that this criterion can consistently distinguish between the true and alternative models under less stringent conditions than the classical BIC. The criterion suggested here can further be used to select the hyper-parameters of sparse model classes, such as truncated and thresholded vine copulas. We present a computationally efficient implementation and illustrate the benefits of the proposed concepts with a case study where we model the dependence in a large portfolio.

Keywords: BIC; Model selection; Sparsity; Value-at-Risk; Vine copula (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2019.03.004

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