In this paper, we investigate the asymmetry in the tail dependence between USequity portfolios and the aggregate US market. Given the limited number of ob-servations in the tails of a joint distribution, standard non-parametric measures oftail dependence often have poor nite-sample properties....

Chapter 1. Introducing Economic Capital -- Part 1. Modelling Credit-Risk Economic Capital -- Chapter 2. Constructing a Practical Model -- Chapter 3. Finding Model Parameters -- Chapter 4. Implementing The Model -- Part 2. Loan Pricing -- Chapter 5. Approximating Economic Capital -- Chapter 6....

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