Functional treatment of asymmetric copulas

Abstract

The concept of asymmetric copulas is revisited and is made more precise. We give a rigorous topological argument for opportunity to define asymmetry measures defined recently by K.F Siburg [6] through exhibiting at least three ordered classes of copulas according to a suitable equivalence relation. We define a process of ordering subcopulas which makes clearer the degree of asymmetry. As illustration, we treat the asymmetric Cobb-Douglas utility model.