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Copulae and Value-at-Risk

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The capital requirement from financial institutions is based on the amount of risk carried in their portfolios.

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Franke, J., Härdle, W.K., Hafner, C.M. (2019). Copulae and Value-at-Risk. In: Statistics of Financial Markets. Universitext. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13751-9_17

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