Mutual exclusivity is an extreme negative dependence structure that was first proposed and studied in Dhaene and Denuit (1999) in the context of insurance risks. In this article, we revisit this notion and present versatile characterizations of mutually exclusive random vectors via their...

We introduce the concepts of ϕ-complete mixability and ϕ-joint mixability and we investigate some necessary and sufficient conditions to the ϕ-mixability of a set of distribution functions for some supermodular functions ϕ. We give examples and numerical verifications which confirm our findings.

Risk aggregation with dependence uncertainty refers to the sum of individual risks with known marginal distributions and unspecified dependence structure. We introduce the admissible risk class to study risk aggregation with dependence uncertainty. The admissible risk class has some nice...

In this article, we show that some important implications concerning comonotonic couples and corresponding convex order relations for their sums cannot be translated to counter-monotonicity in general. In a financial context, it amounts to saying that merging counter-monotonic positions does not...

In this paper, we characterize counter-monotonic and upper comonotonic random vectors by the optimality of the sum of their components in the senses of the convex order and tail convex order respectively. In the first part, we extend the characterization of comonotonicity by  Cheung (2010) and...

The present paper aims to revisit the homogeneous risk model investigated by De Vylder and Goovaerts (1999, 2000). First, a claim arrival process is defined on a fixed time interval by assuming that the arrival times satisfy an order statistic property. Then, the variability and the covariance...

Let X and Y be two random vectors in Rn sharing the same dependence structure, that is, with a common copula. As many authors have pointed out, results of the following form are of interest: under which conditions, the stochastic comparison of the marginals of X and Y is a sufficient condition...