In this paper, we consider the problem of bounds for distribution convolutions and we present some applications to risk management. We show that the upper Frechet bound is not always the more risky dependence structure. It is in contradiction with the belief in finance that maximal risk...

In this paper, we study the approximation procedures introduced by Li, Mikusinski, Sherwood and Taylor [1997]. We show that there exists a bijection between the set of the discretized copulas and the set of the doubly stochastic matrices. For the Bernstein and checkerboard approximations, we...

Copulas are a general tool to construct multivariate distributions and to investigate dependence structure between random variables. However, the concept of copula is not popular in Finance. In this paper, we show that copulas can be extensively used to solve many financial problems

In this survey on last passage times, we propose a new viewpoint which provides a unified approach to many different results which appear in the mathematical finance literature and in the theory of stochastic processes. In particular, we are able to improve the assumptions under which some...

In this paper, we provide a solution to two problems which have been open in default time modeling in credit risk. We first show that if $\tau$ is an arbitrary random (default) time such that its Az\'ema's supermartingale $Z_t^\tau=\P(\taut|\F_t)$ is continuous, then $\tau$ avoids stopping...