Principal Component Copulas for Capital Modelling and Systemic Risk

K. B. Gubbels, J. Y. Ypma and C. W. Oosterlee

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Abstract: We introduce a class of copulas that we call Principal Component Copulas (PCCs). This class combines the strong points of copula-based techniques with principal component-based models, which results in flexibility when modelling tail dependence along the most important directions in high-dimensional data. We obtain theoretical results for PCCs that are important for practical applications. In particular, we derive tractable expressions for the high-dimensional copula density, which can be represented in terms of characteristic functions. We also develop algorithms to perform Maximum Likelihood and Generalized Method of Moment estimation in high-dimensions and show very good performance in simulation experiments. Finally, we apply the copula to the international stock market in order to study systemic risk. We find that PCCs lead to excellent performance on measures of systemic risk due to their ability to distinguish between parallel market movements, which increase systemic risk, and orthogonal movements, which reduce systemic risk. As a result, we consider the PCC promising for internal capital models, which financial institutions use to protect themselves against systemic risk.

Date: 2023-12, Revised 2024-12
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