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mrmelchi
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What are copulas and how are they used in quantitative finance?

April 19th, 2004, 1:33 pm

Suppose:1)The asset prices are log-normally distributed and the percentage asset returns are normally distributed N(0,1).2)We get a realization of two variables uniformly distributed u=0.804172 and v=0.271105 draw from a copula ( Gaussian, t, Archimedean etc).3)Price of the asset A in t0 is equal to tA,0=100 and price of the asset B in to is equal to tB,0=100Then:Convert u and v to pseudo random numbers with distribution function Normal Standard and joint distribution function draws from the prior copula ( Gaussian, t, Archimedean etc). In Excel language:r1=NormSInv(u)= 0.856617r2=NormSInv(v)= -0.609474so that:ln(tA,1)-ln(tA,0)=ln(tA,1) - ln(100)= 0.856617ln(tA,2)-ln(tA,0)=ln(tA,2) - ln(100)= -0.609474tA,1= tA,0 * exp(0.856617/100)= 100.860298 tB,1=tB,0 * exp( -0.609474/100) = 99.392378 so the price of the asset A in t1 is equal to tA,1= 100.860298 and the price of the asset B in t1 is equal to tB,1= 99.392378 .I hope this helps
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March 24th, 2005, 3:29 pm

Hi mr melchi,Is it possible for you to also send me your [email protected]
 
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July 13th, 2005, 8:43 pm

A 2 dimensional copula that maps from [0,1]^2->[0,1] has the 3 following properties (from Nelson's introduction):1. For every u in [0,1] C(0,u)=C(u,0)=02. For every u in [0,1] C(u,1)=u and C(1,u)=u3. For every (u1,u2),(v1,v2) in [0,1]x[0,1] with u1<=v1 and u2<=v2 C(v1,v2)-C(v1,u2)-C(u1,v2)+C(u1,u2)>=0Having the first property also means being 'grounded'.Having the 3rd property is also called '2-increasing'.I'm trying to upload a picture of a copula, but I don't see an 'attach' button anywhere.You can see the properties described above pretty clearly from a picture.If you have octave or matlab, here's a function to produce a pretty copula graph (for matlab, take out all the 'g's!):##this is how many steps to put in the function, set it to whatever you want.n=40; ##this is theta. this is a Gumbel-Hougaard copula, if you want details I'll post more## in short, you can adjust theta to see a steeper copulat=2; x = y = linspace (0.01, 1, n)'; [xx, yy] = meshgrid (x, y); z = exp(-(((-log(xx)).^t+(-log(yy)).^t).^(1/t))); gset pm3d gset key below gset border 4095 gset surface gset samples 25 gset isosamples 20 gset ticslevel 0 mesh (x, y, z); gset nohidden3d replot view(15,30)-t.
 
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July 21st, 2005, 12:59 pm

Hi Mario,could you please send me your spreadsheet? my email address is: [email protected] in advance
 
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October 31st, 2005, 4:55 am

Hi everyone,could you please send a copy of spreadsheet to my email address: [email protected] so much,TZ
 
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November 2nd, 2005, 4:22 pm

Hi there,May I have the spreadsheets too? Thx. Mail
 
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November 3rd, 2005, 9:42 pm

Hi Mario,Could you please send me your spreadsheet? My email address is : [email protected] Thanks.
 
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November 21st, 2005, 3:50 am

Hi Mario,Is it possible for you to mail the sheet to [email protected]?Many thanks!
 
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December 7th, 2005, 4:37 am

Hello, may I have a copy of spreadsheet? Thanks.My mail: [email protected]
 
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January 20th, 2006, 6:16 am

Mario,Can you send me the spreadsheets too ? My email id is [email protected]
 
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February 3rd, 2006, 6:48 pm

Mr. Melchi,May I have a copy of your worksheet as well, please? Thanks,[email protected]
 
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February 7th, 2006, 9:09 pm

I know this is late in the game but the original question [or heading] what what are copulas for in finance.Here is a link to a free paper [actually presentation]:http://www.risklatte.com/copula/copula0 ... fCherubini Umberto, Elisa Luciano 'Multivariate Option Pricing with Copulas' for an application outside risk managementHennessy David, Harvey Lapan 'The Use of Archimedean Copulas to Model Portfolio Allocations' MF 4/02
 
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mrmelchi
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April 4th, 2006, 12:37 pm

Try Tools for sampling Multivariate Archimedean Copulas( www.defaultrisk.com/pp_corr_83.htm )I hope it helps.
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April 4th, 2006, 9:29 pm

What a great website. Many thanks.defaultrisk.com
 
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June 9th, 2006, 12:13 pm

Hi Mr. Melchi,Can you send me your spreadsheets?Thank [email protected]