Consider n i.i.d. random vectors on R2, with unknown, common distribution function F. Under a sharpening of the extreme value condition on F, we derive a weighted approximation of the corresponding tail copula process. Then we construct a test to check whether the extreme value condition holds...

In financial practice, it is important to understand the dependence structure between the returns of individual assets and the market index. This particularly true under extreme situations. Theoretically, this amounts to regress the dependence relationship against a set of pre-specified...