income and wealth inequality in five OECD countries using comparable household-level survey data. We focus on the dependence … social inequality than the traditional 'income only' approach. We find that cross-country variations in the dependence … parameter effectively accounts only for a small fraction of cross-country differences in a bivariate measure of inequality. The …

income and wealth inequality in five OECD countries using comparable household-level survey data. We focus on the dependence … social inequality than the traditional 'income only' approach. We find that cross-country variations in the dependence … parameter effectively accounts only for a small fraction of cross-country differences in a bivariate measure of inequality. The …

conditions in different locations. For that purpose copula methods are employed that allow an adequate description of stochastic …

promising class of models are the hierarchical Archimedean copulae (HAC) that allow for non-exchangeable and non … for stock indices the copula parameter changes dynam- ically but the hierarchical structure is constant over time …

This paper make an overview of the copula theory from a practical side. We consider different methods of copula … Gaussian copulae but also Hierarchical Archimedean Copulae. Afterwards we provide an empirical part to support the theory. …

. Nevertheless it is not very often consistent with the real data. Copulae allows for an extension of the classical time series … models to nonelliptically distributed residuals. In this paper we apply different copulae to the calculation of the static … and dynamic Value-at-Risk of portfolio returns and Profit-and-Loss function. In our findings copula based multivariate …

and of the copula. The result is applied to the approximation of portofolio modelled by t-copulas with large degrees of …

models. In the third part of the study, copula approaches as an alternative are applied to measure farm credit risk under the … other industries.Estimated average asset correlation from Gaussian and t copula is 11%, similar to that by using a single … factor model (Katchova and Barry 2005). The estimated average default correlation from Gaussian copula is less than 1% while …