(1) Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University, 1958 Neil Avenue, Cockins Hall, Columbus, OH 43210-1247, USA;(2) Center of Mathematical Sciences, Munich University of Technology, D-85747 Garching, Germany
Abstract:
We investigate extreme dependence in a multivariate setting with special emphasis on financial applications. We introduce a new dependence function which allows us to capture the complete extreme dependence structure and present a nonparametric estimation procedure. The new dependence function is compared with existing measures including the spectral measure and other devices measuring extreme dependence. We also apply our method to a financial data set of zero coupon swap rates and estimate the extreme dependence in the data.AMS 2000 Subject Classification. Primary—62G32, 62H12 Secondary—62E20