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Explain the term copula in current financial crisis

Explain the term copula in current financial crisis.

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The copula approach permits one to join together (hence the word ‘copula’) default models for individual companies within isolation to make a model for the probabilities of their joint default. The concept was adopted universally as a practical solution to a complicated problem. Though, with the recent financial crisis the concept has come in for lots of criticism.

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