Second order tail asymptotics for the sum of dependent, tail-independent regularly varying risks

Abstract

In this paper we consider dependent random variables with common regularly varying marginal distribution. Under the assumption that these random variables are tail-independent, it is well known that the tail of the sum behaves like in the independence case. Under some conditions on the marginal distributions and the dependence structure (including Gaussian copula’s and certain Archimedean copulas) we provide the second-order asymptotic behavior of the tail of the sum.