A number of problems in economics, finance, information theory, insurance, and generally in decision making under uncertainty rely on estimates of the covariance between (transformed) random variables, which can for example be losses, risks, incomes, financial returns, etc. Several avenues...

To assess the required capital for insurance companies, which usually have several business lines, estimates of the joint tail probabilities of aggregate losses are needed. Under the collective risk model, these aggregate losses are sums of random number of random variables, whose distributions...