Selection Of Copulas And Its Application On Finance

Copula functions which based on joint distribution provide a flexible and useful statistic tool to construct multivariate joint distribution and solve the nonlinear correlation problem. One of its advantages is the dependence structure of variables no longer depending on the marginal distributions. Copula theory has gained increasing attention in asset pricing, risk management, portfolio management and other applications. In detail, my research is as follows:We first introduce the ideas of copula theory and several copula functions which belong to Archimedean families. Then we discuss the use of Archimedean Copula in VaR and CVaR calculation without the traditional multidimensional normal distribution assumption in financial risk management. Our empirical analysis which based on stock market data uses Monte Carlo simulation method and the results show that the VaR calculated by copula method is larger than traditional method. It means that traditional method underestimated the risk of stock market, and the Monte Carlo simulation based on Copula is effective for financial Market. Then, this method is extended to the multidimensional case, to show that the VaR of proper portfolio is lower than means of risk with single stock.In order to improve the validation of model construction, we introduce a simple Bayesian method to choose the"best"copula which is a mixture of several different copulas. By estimating parameters of each chosen copula and adjusting their weight coefficients in the mixed copula, the model has all the advantages of the chosen copulas and has more flexibility because different weight coefficient combinations describe different asset correlations. In addition, we introduce Bootstrap method to estimate the parameters of Archimedean Copula. The real analysis also shows the estimated parameter by Bootstrap method gets closer to actual value. So it is another efficient way to solve our problems.At last, we make a summary of the whole paper, and look into the future of some aspects that could be discussed in the coming days.