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Haruki Tsunekawa

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A Characterization of Measures of Concordance of Degree Two

We characterize bivariate measures of concordance of degree at most two in the sense that the measures evaluated at copula-mixture segments are polynomials of degree at most two. Our main device is the canonical polarization, which converts quadraticity of a functional into separate affinity, thereby allowing an integral representation for affine functionals to be applied sectionwise. Using this technique, we prove that measures of degree at most two are in bijection with copula-indexed measure fields satisfying several properties including square-group equivariance. The field at independence determines the affine linearization, while its displacement determines the purely quadratic part. Moreover, exact degree two is equivalent to field non-constancy. Leveraging our characterization result, we provide a construction of degree-two measures of concordance based on affine copula operators that are square-group equivariant. As a more concrete example, we derive a necessary and sufficient condition for a weighted averaging operator of square-group transformed copulas to generate a measure of concordance of degree two.

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Measuring multivariate maximal tail dependence

The classical tail dependence coefficient (TDC) may fail to capture non-exchangeable features of bivariate tail dependence since it evaluates the underlying copula only along the diagonal. To address this limitation, several measures of strongest manifestation of tail dependence have been proposed in the bivariate case, including a measure based on the tail copula of the underlying bivariate copula. This paper introduces and investigates the multivariate maximal tail concordance measure (MTCM) which extends the bivariate measure to the multivariate case. The MTCM quantifies the largest tail mass over lower hyperrectangles of common unit volume, while the associated maximizer identifies the direction of maximal tail probability. We establish fundamental properties of the MTCM in the multivariate case, including existence of an optimal direction. We also derive analytical representations for several important model classes. Closed-form expressions are further obtained for survival Marshall-Olkin copulas, Archimax and nested Archimedean copulas with regularly varying Archimedean generators. An application to trivariate annual sea-level maxima in England shows that the MTCM can reveal off-diagonal stress directions and substantial differences in the underlying extremal dependence not detected by likelihood- or TDC-based comparisons.

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Tail copula representation of path-based maximal tail dependence

The classical tail dependence coefficient (TDC) may fail to capture non-exchangeable features of tail dependence due to its restrictive focus on the diagonal of the underlying copula. To address this limitation, the framework of path-based maximal tail dependence has been proposed, where a path of maximal dependence is derived to capture the most pronounced feature of dependence over all possible paths, and the path-based maximal TDC serves as a natural analogue of the classical TDC along this path. However, the theoretical foundations of path-based tail analyses, in particular the existence and analytical tractability, have remained limited. This paper addresses this issue in several ways. First, we prove the existence of a path of maximal dependence and the path-based maximal TDC when the underlying copula admits a non-degenerate tail copula. Second, we obtain an explicit characterization of the maximal TDC in terms of the tail copula. Third, we show that the first-order asymptotics of a path of maximal dependence is characterized by a one-dimensional optimization involving the tail copula. These results improve the analytical and computational tractability of path-based tail analyses. As an application, we derive the asymptotic behavior of a path of maximal dependence for the bivariate t-copula and the survival Marshall--Olkin copula.

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