The product of two dependent random variables with regularly varying or rapidly varying tails

Let X and Y be two nonnegative and dependent random variables following a generalized Farlie-Gumbel-Morgenstern distribution. In this short note, we study the impact of a dependence structure of X and Y on the tail behavior of XY. We quantify the impact as the limit, as x-->[infinity], of the quotient of Pr(XY>x) and Pr(X*Y*>x), where X* and Y* are independent random variables identically distributed as X and Y, respectively. We obtain an explicit expression for this limit when X is regularly varying or rapidly varying tailed.Generalized Farlie-Gumbel-Morgenstern distribution Product Rapid variation Regular variation Tail probability