Abstract : This work presents the impact of a class of transformations of copulas in their upper and lower multivariate tail dependence coefficients. In particular we focus on multivariate Archimedean copulas. In the first part, we calculate multivariate transformed tail dependence coefficients when the generator of the considered transformed copula exhibits some regular variation properties, and we investigate the behavior of these coefficients in cases that are close to tail independence. We obtain new results under specific conditions involving regularly varying hazard rates of components of the transformation. These results are also valid for non-transformed Archimedean copulas. In the second part we deal with a class of particular hyperbolic transformations. We show the utility of using transformed Archimedean copulas, as they permit to build Archimedean generators exhibiting any chosen couple of lower and upper tail dependence coefficients.

Keywords : Archimedean copulas; tail dependence coefficients; regular variation; transformations of Archimedean copulas