One of the most important factors to control for the achievements of investment portfolio returns is risk. If we only think that a 100% positive return is needed to recover a portfolio loss of 50%, we can understand why. With the advent of the exponential growth of technology usage in markets,...

In this article, we propose a R-vine copula model to detect the nonlinear interdependence between the oil market and five Chinese new-energy-related stock markets (photovoltaic, new energy vehicles, energy storage, wind power, and nuclear power industries). Following Reboredo and Ugolini (2015),...

In this paper we develop a novel semi-nonparametric panel copula model with external covariates for the study of wage rank dynamics. We focus on nonlinear dependence between the current and lagged worker's ranks in the wage residuals distribution, conditionally on individual characteristics. We...

In this study, we analyse a large sample of Egyptian social pension data which covers, by law, the policyholder's spouse, children, parents and siblings. This data set uniquely enables the study and comparison of pairwise dependence between multiple familial relationships beyond the well-known...