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Christian Palmes

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Copula Relations in Compound Poisson Processes

We investigate in multidimensional compound Poisson processes (CPP) the relation between the dependence structure of the jump distribution and the dependence structure of the respective components of the CPP itself. For this purpose the asymptotic $λt\to \infty$ is considered, where $λ$ denotes the intensity and $t$ the time point of the CPP. For modeling the dependence structures we are using the concept of copulas. We prove that the copula of a CPP converges under quite general assumptions to a specific Gaussian copula, depending on the underlying jump distribution. Let $F$ be a $d$-dimensional jump distribution $(d\geq 2)$, $λ>0$ and let $Ψ(λ,F)$ be the distribution of the corresponding CPP with intensity $λ$ at the time point $1$. Further, denote the operator which maps a $d$-dimensional distribution on its copula as $\mathcal{T}$. The starting point of our investigation was the validity of the equation \begin{equation} \label{marFreeEq} \mathcal{T}(Ψ(λ,F))=\mathcal{T}(Ψ(λ,\mathcal{T}F)). \end{equation} Our asymptotic theory implies that this equation is, in general, not true. A simulation study that confirms our theoretical results is given in the last section.

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Low Frequency Lévy Copula Estimation

Let $X$ be a $d$-dimensional Lévy process with Lévy triplet $(Σ,ν,α)$ and $d\geq 2$. Given the low frequency observations $(X_t)_{t=1,\ldots,n}$, the dependence structure of the jumps of $X$ is estimated. The Lévy measure $ν$ describes the average jump behavior in a time unit. Thus, the aim is to estimate the dependence structure of $ν$ by estimating the Lévy copula $\mathfrak{C}$ of $ν$, cf. Kallsen and Tankov \cite{KalTan}. We use the low frequency techniques presented in a one dimensional setting in Neumann and Reiß \cite{NeuRei} and Nickl and Reiß \cite{NicRei} to construct a Lévy copula estimator $\widehat{\mathfrak{C}}_n$ based on the above $n$ observations. In doing so we prove $$\widehat{\mathfrak{C}}_n\to \mathfrak{C},\quad n\to\infty$$ uniformly on compact sets bounded away from zero with the convergence rate $\sqrt{\log n}$. This convergence holds under quite general assumptions, which also include Lévy triplets with $Σ\neq 0$ and $ν$ of arbitrary Blumenthal-Getoor index $0\leqβ\leq 2$. Note that in a low frequency observation scheme, it is statistically difficult to distinguish between infinitely many small jumps and a Brownian motion part. Hence, the rather slow convergence rate $\sqrt{\log n}$ is not surprising. In the complementary case of a compound Poisson process (CPP), an estimator $\widehat{C}_n$ for the copula $C$ of the jump distribution of the CPP is constructed under the same observation scheme. This copula $C$ is the analogue to the Lévy copula $\mathfrak{C}$ in the finite jump activity case, i.e. the CPP case. Here we establish $$\widehat{C}_n \to C,\quad n\to\infty$$ with the convergence rate $\sqrt{n}$ uniformly on compact sets bounded away from zero. Both convergence rates are optimal in the sense of Neumann and Reiß.

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