Hierarchical Archimax copulas

Abstract

The class of Archimax copulas is generalized to hierarchical Archimax copulas in two ways. First, a hierarchical construction of d-norm generators is introduced to construct hierarchical stable tail dependence functions which induce a hierarchical structure on Archimax copulas. Second, by itself or additionally, hierarchical frailties are introduced to extend Archimax copulas to hierarchical Archimax copulas in a similar way as nested Archimedean copulas extend Archimedean copulas. Possible extensions to nested Archimax copulas are discussed. A general formula for the density and its evaluation of Archimax copulas is also introduced.