Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Actuarial Sciences and Finance

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Multivariate Variance Gamma and Gaussian dependence: a study with copulas 203


  • ObtainNrealisations(xn 1 ,x 2 n)ofX( 1 )by means of the relations


xn 1 =μ 1 g 1 n+σ 1 M 1 (n)

xn 2 =μ 2 g 2 n+σ 2 M 2 (n).

Acknowledgement.We thank Claudio Patrucco for having provided the marginal calibra-
tions and Ksenia Rulik for computational assistance. Financial support from MIUR (grant
20061327131) is gratefully acknowledged.


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