This paper applies a new methodology for modeling order durations of ultra-high-frequency data using copulas. While the class of common Autoregressive Conditional Duration models are characterized by strict parameterizations and high computational burden, the semiparametric copula approach...

We present a flexible class of hierarchical copulas capable of modelling multidimensional joint distributions of asset returns with a richer rank correlation structure than existing models. We derive estimators and simulation techniques. The methods are applied to an illustrative portfolio...

The flexible class of Archimedean copulas plays an important role in multivariate statistics. While there is a large number of goodness-of-fit tests for copulas and parametric families of copulas, the question if a given data set belongs to an arbitrary Archimedean copula or not has not yet...