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DETECTING FINANCIAL DATA DEPENDENCE STRUCTURE BY AVERAGING MIXTURE COPULAS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 September 2018

Guannan Liu
Affiliation:
School of Economics, Xiamen University
Wei Long
Affiliation:
Tulane University
Xinyu Zhang*
Affiliation:
Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao University
Qi Li
Affiliation:
Texas A&M University, Capital University of Economics and Business
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*Address correspondence to Xinyu Zhang, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; and Qingdao University, Qingdao, China; email: xinyu@amss.ac.cn.
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A mixture copula is a linear combination of several individual copulas that can be used to generate dependence structures not belonging to existing copula families. Because different pairs of markets may exhibit quite different dependence structures in empirical studies, mixture copulas are useful in modeling the dependence in financial data. Therefore, rather than selecting a single copula based on certain criteria, we propose using a model averaging approach to estimate financial data dependence structures in a mixture copula framework. We select weights (for averaging) by a J-fold Cross-Validation procedure. We prove that the model averaging estimator is asymptotically optimal in the sense that it minimizes the squared estimation loss. Our simulation results show that the model averaging approach outperforms some competing methods when the working mixture model is misspecified. Using 12 years of data on daily returns from four developed economies’ stock indexes, we show that the model averaging approach more accurately estimates their dependence structures than some competing methods.

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