• Exact ABC using Importance Sampling 

      Tran, Minh-Ngoc; Kohn, Robert
      Published 2015-09-23
      Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) is a powerful method for carrying out Bayesian inference when the likelihood is computationally intractable. However, a draw- back of ABC is that it is an approximate method that ...
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    • Generalized Information Matrix Tests for Copulas 

      Prokhorov, Artem; Schepsmeier, Ulf; Zhu, Yajing
      Published 2015-09-11
      We propose a family of goodness-of-fit tests for copulas. The tests use generalizations of the information matrix (IM) equality of White (1982) and so relate to the copula test proposed by Huang and Prokhorov (2014). The ...
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    • GEL Estimation for Heavy-Tailed GARCH Models with Robust Empirical Likelihood Inference 

      Hill, Jonathan B.; Prokhorov, Artem
      Published 2015-09-11
      We construct a Generalized Empirical Likelihood estimator for a GARCH(1,1) model with a possibly heavy tailed error. The estimator imbeds tail-trimmed estimating equations allowing for over-identifying conditions, asymptotic ...
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    • Bayesian Semi-parametric Realized-CARE Models for Tail Risk Forecasting Incorporating Range and Realized Measures 

      Gerlach, Richard; Wang, Chao
      Published 2015-09-11
      A new framework named Realized Conditional Autoregressive Expectile (Realized- CARE) is proposed, through incorporating a measurement equation into the conventional CARE model, in a framework analogous to Realized-GARCH. ...
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    • Fat tails and copulas: limits of diversification revisited 

      Ibragimov, Rustam; Prokhorov, Artem; Mo, Jingyuan
      Published 2015-09-11
      We consider the problem of portfolio risk diversification in a Value-at-Risk framework with heavy-tailed risks and arbitrary dependence captured by a copula function. We use the power law for modelling the tails and ...
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