Recent advances in estimation techniques have underscored the growing importance of shrinkage estimation and balanced loss functions in the analysis of multivariate normal distributions. These ...

Appropriate modeling of time-varying dependencies is very important for quantifying financial risk, such as the risk associated with a portfolio of financial assets. Most of the papers analyzing ...

This paper presents a discrete random-field model for forward prices driven by the multivariate normal inverse Gaussian distribution. The model captures the idiosyncratic risk and adequately addresses ...