Complex phenomena in environmental sciences can be conveniently represented by several inter-dependent random variables. In order to describe such situations, copula-based models have been studied during the last year. In this paper, we consider a novel family of bivariate copulas, called...

We analyze the interdependence between the government yield spread and stock returns of the banking sector in Italy during the years 2003-2015. In a first step, we find that after September 2008 the Spearman's rank correlation between the yield spread and the Italian banking system changed...