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Dr. S.U. (Umut) Can

Faculty of Economics and Business
Section Quantitative Economics
Photographer: S.U. Can

Visiting address
  • Roetersstraat 11
  • Room number: E4.26B
Postal address
  • Postbus 15867
    1001 NJ Amsterdam
  • Profile

    Current position

    Assistant professor in Actuarial Science 

    Research interests

    Extreme value theory, dependence modeling, heavy tailed distributions, stable processes, mathematical statistics 

    Dissertation title

    Some convergence results on stable infinite moving average processes and stable self-similar processes 

     

  • Research
  • Publications

    2024

    • Can, S. U., Laeven, R. J. A., & Einmahl, J. H. J. (2024). Two-Sample Testing for Tail Copulas with an Application to Equity Indices. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 42(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/07350015.2023.2166050

    2020

    2015

    • Can, S. U., Einmahl, J. H. J., Khmaladze, E. V., & Laeven, R. J. A. (2015). Asymptotically distribution-free goodness-of-fit testing for tail copulas. The Annals of Statistics, 43(2), 878-902. https://doi.org/10.1214/14-AOS1304 [details]

    2014

    2010

    • Can, S. U., Mikosch, T., & Samorodnitsky, G. (2010). Weak convergence of the function-idexed integrated periodogram for infite variance processes. Bernoulli, 16(4), 995-1015. https://doi.org/10.3150/10-BEJ253

    2023

    2015

    • Umut Can, S., & Laeven, R. J. A. (2015). Determining the right tail dependence model using R. Actuaris, 22(5), 40-41. [details]

    Talk / presentation

    • Can, U. (speaker) (13-6-2019). Goodness of Fit Testing for Point Processes in Survival Analysis, 18th Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis Conference, Florence.
    • Can, U. (speaker) (15-6-2018). Goodness of fit testing for copulas: a distribution-free approach, 4th Conference of the International Society for Nonparametric Statistics, Salerno.
    • Can, S. U. (speaker) (30-6-2017). Asymptotically Distribution-Free Goodness-of-Fit Testing for Copulas, 10th International Conference on Extreme Value Analysis, Delft.

    Others

    • Can, U. (organiser) (26-6-2017 - 30-6-2017). 10th International Conference on Extreme Value Analysis, Delft (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).

    2010

    • Can, S. U. (2010). Some convergence results on stable infinite moving average processes and stable self-similar processes. [Thesis, fully external, Cornell University]. Cornell Univesity.

    2013

    • Can, S. U., Einmahl, J. H. J., Khmaladze, E. V., & Laeven, R. J. A. (2013). Goodness-of-fit testing in dependence models. Amsterdam: Universiteit van Amsterdam.
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  • Ancillary activities
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