Values of tranche spreads of collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) are driven by the joint default performance of the assets in the collateral pool. The dependence between the names in the portfolio mainly depends on current economic conditions. Therefore, a correlation implied from tranches...

Values of tranche spreads of collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) are driven by the joint default performance of the assets in the collateral pool. The dependence between the names in the portfolio mainly depends on current economic conditions. Therefore, a correlation implied from tranches...

Archimedean copulae build a large family of copulae exhibiting tail-dependency in many cases. We extend the classical homogeneous (exchangeable) Archimedean copula to the heterogeneous case. This will extend the use of this copula family to multivariate random variable with pairwise different...

For the Markov property of a multivariate process, a necessary and sufficient condition on the multi-dimensional copula of the finite-dimensional distributions is given. This establishes that the Markov property is solely a property of the copula, i.e., of the dependence structure. This extends...