Notions of positive dependence and copulas play important roles in modeling dependent risks. The invariant properties of notions of positive dependence and copulas under increasing transformations are often used in the studies of economics, finance, insurance and many other fields. In this...

Dependence structures of multiple risks play an important role in optimal allocation problems for insurance, quantitative risk management, and finance. However, in many existing studies on these problems, risks or losses are often assumed to be independent or comonotonic or exchangeable. In this...