The incidence of rare but extreme events appears to be significant in worldwide financial markets. In this chapter we apply extreme value theory (EVT) distributions to predict extreme losses of five South African (SA) financial times stock exchange/Johannesburg Stock Exchange (FTSE/JSE) closing...

This study proposes a GARCH copula quantile regression model to capture the downside and upside tail dependence between oil price change and stock market returns at different risk levels. In the model, ten copulas are provided to measure the nonlinearity of the tail dependence with the marginal...