This paper investigates the structure and degree of extreme dependence in international equity markets using carefully selected tools from the theory of copulas. We examine both the static and dynamic dependence via unconditional and conditional copulas. We find significant asymmetric tail...

A copula approach is adopted to examine the extreme return-volume relationship in six emerging East-Asian equity markets. The empirical results indicate that the return-volume dependence is significant and asymmetric at extremes for all six East-Asian markets. In particular extremely high...