This paper provides a new approach to recover relative entropy measures of contemporaneous dependence from limited information by constructing the most entropic copula (MEC) and its canonical form, namely the most entropic canonical copula (MECC). The MECC can effectively be obtained by...

When a pair of independent series are highly persistent, there is a spurious regression bias in a regression between these series, closely related to the classic studies of Granger and Newbold [1974]. Although this is well known to occur with independent I(1) processes, this paper provides...

Front Cover -- The Analytics of Risk Model Validation -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- About the editors -- About the contributors -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Determinants of small business default -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data, methodology and summary statistics -- 3. Empirical...

Modern Portfolio Theory explores how risk averse investors construct portfolios in order to optimize market risk against expected returns. The theory quantifies the benefits of diversification. Modern Portfolio Theory provides a broad context for understanding the interactions of systematic risk...