The bivariate probit model is frequently used for estimating the eff ect of an endogenous binary regressor (the "treatment") on a binary health outcome variable. This paper discusses simple modifi cations that maintain the probit assumption for the marginal distributions while introducing...

Estimation of copula models with discrete margins can be difficult beyond the bivariate case. We show how this can be achieved by augmenting the likelihood with latent variables, and computing inference using the resulting augmented posterior. To evaluate this we propose two efficient Markov...

We propose a multidimensional extension for Patton’s (2006) bi-variate Dynamic Copulas. We also introduce a Dynamic Mixture Copula whose parameters and weights follow well defined dynamic processes. Both approaches improve the Copulas’ flexibilities and their adaptabilities to financial...

We introduce a statistical test for comparing the predictive accuracy of competing copula specifications in multivariate density forecasts, based on the Kullback-Leibler Information Criterion (KLIC). The test is valid under general conditions: in particular it allows for parameter estimation...

In this paper we investigate the relationship between volatility, measured by realized volatility, and trading volume. We show that volume and volatility are long memory but they are not driven by the same latent factor as suggested by the fractional cointegration analysis. We analyze the degree...

In this paper, we extend copula-based univariate time series models studied in Chen & Fan (2006) to multivariate time series. Doing so, we tackle at the same time serial dependence as well as interdependence between several time series. The proposed methodology is totally different from the...

This paper proposes dynamic copula and marginals functions to model the joint distribution of risk factor returns affecting portfolios profit and loss distribution over a specified holding period. By using copulas, we can separate the marginal distributions from the dependence structure and...

Daul et al. (2003), Demarta and McNeil (2005) and Mcneil et al. (2005) underlined the ability of the grouped t-copula to take the tail dependence present in a large set of financial assets into account, particularly when the assumption of one global parameter for the degrees of freedom (as for...