Change analysis of a dynamic copula for measuring dependence in multivariate financial data

D. Guegan and J. Zhang

Quantitative Finance, 2010, vol. 10, issue 4, 421-430

Abstract: This paper proposes a new approach to measure dependencies in multivariate financial data. Data in finance and insurance often cover a long time period. Therefore, the economic factors may induce some changes within the dependence structure. Recently, two methods have been proposed using copulas to analyse such changes. The first approach investigates changes within the parameters of the copula. The second determines the sequence of copulas using moving windows. In this paper we take into account the non-stationarity of the data and analyse the impact of (1) time-varying parameters for a copula family, and (2) the sequence of copulas, on the computations of the VaR and ES measures. We propose tests based on conditional copulas and the goodness-of-fit to decide the type of change, and further give the corresponding change analysis. We illustrate our approach using the Standard & Poor 500 and Nasdaq indices in order to compute risk measures using the two previous methods.

Keywords: Financial markets; Mathematical models; Statistical methods; Stochastic processes; Risk management; Financial time series; Extreme value theory; Extreme risk and insurance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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