Mixed Marginal Copula Modeling

A-Tier
Journal: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics
Year: 2020
Volume: 38
Issue: 1
Pages: 137-147

Score contribution per author:

1.341 = (α=2.01 / 3 authors) × 2.0x A-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

This article extends the literature on copulas with discrete or continuous marginals to the case where some of the marginals are a mixture of discrete and continuous components. We do so by carefully defining the likelihood as the density of the observations with respect to a mixed measure. The treatment is quite general, although we focus on mixtures of Gaussian and Archimedean copulas. The inference is Bayesian with the estimation carried out by Markov chain Monte Carlo. We illustrate the methodology and algorithms by applying them to estimate a multivariate income dynamics model. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:taf:jnlbes:v:38:y:2020:i:1:p:137-147
Journal Field
Econometrics
Author Count
3
Added to Database
2026-01-25