Dynamic D-Vine copula model with applications to Value-at-Risk (VaR)

Regular vine copulas are multivariate dependence models constructed from pair-copulas (bivariate copulas). In this paper, we allow the dependence parameters of the pair-copulas in a D-vine decomposition to be potentially time-varying, following a nonlinear restricted ARMA(1,m) process, in order to o...

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Authors: Tófoli, Paula Virgínia, Ziegelmann, Flávio Augusto, Silva Filho, Osvaldo Candido, Pereira, Pedro L. Valls
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2016
Country:Brasil
Institution:Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV)
Repository:Repositório Institucional do FGV (FGV Repositório Digital)
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/16625
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10438/16625
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Regular vine
Pair-copula constructions
Time-varying copulas
Economia
Modelos econométricos
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Summary:Regular vine copulas are multivariate dependence models constructed from pair-copulas (bivariate copulas). In this paper, we allow the dependence parameters of the pair-copulas in a D-vine decomposition to be potentially time-varying, following a nonlinear restricted ARMA(1,m) process, in order to obtain a very flexible dependence model for applications to multivariate financial return data. We investigate the dependence among the broad stock market indexes from Germany (DAX), France (CAC 40), Britain (FTSE 100), the United States (S&P 500) and Brazil (IBOVESPA) both in a crisis and in a non-crisis period. We find evidence of stronger dependence among the indexes in bear markets. Surprisingly, though, the dynamic D-vine copula indicates the occurrence of a sharp decrease in dependence between the indexes FTSE and CAC in the beginning of 2011, and also between CAC and DAX during mid-2011 and in the beginning of 2008, suggesting the absence of contagion in these cases. We also evaluate the dynamic D-vine copula with respect to Value-at-Risk (VaR) forecasting accuracy in crisis periods. The dynamic D-vine outperforms the static D-vine in terms of predictive accuracy for our real data sets.