Extremal behavior of Archimedean copulas
Larsson, Martin ; Nešlehová, Johanna
Adv. in Appl. Probab., Tome 43 (2011) no. 1, p. 195-216 / Harvested from Project Euclid
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We show how the extremal behavior of d-variate Archimedean copulas can be deduced from their stochastic representation as the survival dependence structure of an l1-symmetric distribution (see McNeil and Nešlehová (2009)). We show that the extremal behavior of the radial part of the representation is determined by its Williamson d-transform. This leads in turn to simple proofs and extensions of recent results characterizing the domain of attraction of Archimedean copulas, their upper and lower tail-dependence indices, as well as their associated threshold copulas. We outline some of the practical implications of their results for the construction of Archimedean models with specific tail behavior and give counterexamples of Archimedean copulas whose coefficient of lower tail dependence does not exist.
Publié le : 2011-03-15
Classification:  Archimedean copula,  domain of attraction,  extreme value copula,  ell_1-norm symmetric distribution,  regular variation,  simplex distribution,  tail dependence,  threshold copula,  Williamson transform,  60G70,  60F05,  62E20 
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Larsson, Martin; Nešlehová, Johanna. Extremal behavior of Archimedean copulas. Adv. in Appl. Probab., Tome 43 (2011) no. 1, pp.  195-216. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/1300198519/