The purpose of this paper is to present a comprehensive simulation study on the finite sample properties of minimum-distance and maximum-likelihood estimators for bivariate and multivariate parametric copulas. For five popular parametric copulas, classical maximum-likelihood is compared to a...

We show that the information on derivatives usage and securitization activities of U.S. banks as disclosed in their pre-crisis 10-K filings predicts their systemic equity risk during the financial crisis. Investors predominantly exited stocks of banks that had previously disclosed a more...

We propose a novel corporate social responsibility (CSR) index that captures various aspects of an insurer's internal and external CSR activities. We first show that insurers worldwide have significantly increased their CSR activities with the average index value almost doubling between 2006 and...

We study symmetry properties of bivariate copulas. For this, we introduce an order of asymmetry, as well as measures of asymmetry which are monotone in that order. In an empirical study, we illustrate that asymmetric dependence structures do indeed occur in financial market data and discuss its...