Copulas offer financial risk managers a powerful tool to model the dependence between the different elements of a portfolio and are preferable to the traditional, correlation-based approach. In this paper we show the importance of selecting an accurate copula for risk management. We extend...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Acronyms -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Linear static models -- 3 Dealing with heterogeneity and endogeneity: fixed effects, IV and GMM -- 4 Outliers, missing values and other data issues -- 5 Linear dynamic models -- 6 Models with limited...

This paper shows that stock market contagion occurs as a domino effect, where confined local crashes evolve into more widespread crashes. Using a novel framework based on ordered logit regressions we model the occurrence of local, regional and global crashes as a function of their past...