Aggregation of Market Risks using Pair-Copulas

Dominique Guegan () and Fatima Jouad ()
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Dominique Guegan: Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne - Paris School of Economics, https://cv.archives-ouvertes.fr/dominique-guegan
Fatima Jouad: AXA GRM et Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne, https://centredeconomiesorbonne.cnrs.fr

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Abstract: The advent of the Internal Model Approval Process within Solvency II and the desirability of many insurance companies to gain approval has increased the importance of some topics such as risk aggregation in determining overall economic capital level. The most widely used approach for aggregating risks is the variance-covariance matrix approach. Although being a relatively well-known concept that is computationally convenient, linear correlations fail to model every particularity of the dependence pattern between risks. In this paper we apply different pair-copula models for aggregating market risks that represent usually an important part of an insurer risk profile. We then calculate the economic capital needed to withstand unexpected future losses and the associated diversification benefits. The economic capital will be determined by computing both 99.5th VaR and 99.5th ES following the requirements of Solvency II and SST

Keywords: Solvency II; risks aggregation; pair-copulas; diversification gains; market risks; economic capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2012-05
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Working Paper: Aggregation of Market Risks using Pair-Copulas (2012)
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