Multivariate Bilateral Gamma, Copulas, CoSkews and CoKurtosis

18 Pages Posted: 22 Jun 2020

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Dilip B. Madan

University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business

King Wang

Morgan Stanley

Date Written: May 27, 2020

Abstract

Correlation graphs are introduced to delineate the levels observed in data and models for return and squared return correlations. A sample of 2048 representative pairs of equity assets is selected from a possible collection of 381,501 pairs by quantization. Five copulas are estimated and simulated on these pairs of returns, the Gaussian, t-copula, Clayton, Gumbel and Frank. Additionally the multivariate bilateral gamma (MBG) model that introduces dependence via common time changes is also fit and simulated. Results of fit statistics on returns and CoSkew and CoKurtosis pairs are reported. The general ordering of the models is MBG, t-copula, followed by the Gaussian, Frank, Gumbel and Clayton copulas.

Keywords: Multivariate Variance Gamma, Tail Probabilities, Bivariate Characteristic Function Estimation.

JEL Classification: G11, G12, G13

Suggested Citation

Madan, Dilip B. and Wang, King, Multivariate Bilateral Gamma, Copulas, CoSkews and CoKurtosis (May 27, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3611853 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3611853

Dilip B. Madan (Contact Author)

University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business ( email )

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United States
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King Wang

Morgan Stanley ( email )

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New York, NY 10036
United States

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