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We introduce new models for analyzing the mortality dependence between individuals in a couple. The mortality risk dependence is usually taken into account in the actuarial literature by introducing an Archimedean copula. This practice implies symmetric effects on the remaining lifetime of the...
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In order to derive closed-form expressions of the prices of credit derivatives, the standard models for credit risk usually price the default intensities but not the default events themselves. The default indicator is replaced by an appropriate prediction and the prediction error, that is the...
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There is a growing literature on the possibility to identify correlation and contagion in qualitative risk analysis. Our paper considers this question by means of a model describing the joint dynamics of a set of individual binary processes. The two admissible values correspond to bad and good...
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In this paper we examine the dependence between the liquidation risks of individual hedge funds. This dependence can result either from common exogenous shocks (shared frailty), or from contagion phenomena, which occur when an endogenous behaviour of a fund manager impacts the Net Asset Values...
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