Discussion Papers are a series of manuscripts in their draft form. They are not intended for circulation or distribution except as indicated by the author. For that reason Discussion Papers may not be reproduced or distributed without the written consent of the author. for financial support. This is an abridged and revised version of a paper entitled " Do we really need both BEKK and DCC? A tal...

The question which multivariate GARCH models in the vec form are representable in the BEKK form is addressed. Using results from linear algebra, it is established that all vec models not representable in the simplest BEKK form contain matrices as parameters which map the vectorised positive semi-definite matrices into a strict subset of themselves. Moreover, a general result from linear algebra...

The BEKK model is a popular multivariate GARCH processes. The paper develops a new general asymmetric BEKK structure, which is based on recent empirical findings by semi-parametric news impact curves. For estimating the new model, a Markov chain Monte Carlo technique is used. Empirical results for triviarte asset returns from firms in the US indicate that the deviance information criterion favo...

Abstract Estimating time-varying conditional covariance matrices of financial returns play important role in portfolio analysis, risk management, and econometrics research. The availability high-frequency data can provide an additional source for dynamic modeling. In this paper, we propose to use the information asset return vector realized measures simultaneously develop a new matrix model. We...

A joint fractionally integrated, error-correction andmultivariateGARCH (FIEC-BEKK) approach is applied to investigate hedging effectiveness using daily data 1995–2005. The findings reveal the proxied error-correction term has a long memory component that theoretically should affect hedging effectiveness.When the FIECmodel empirical conditions are satisfied, the FIEC-BEKK hedging strategy outper...

The paper develops two Dynamic Conditional Correlation (DCC) models, namely the Wishart DCC (WDCC) model and the Matrix-Exponential Conditional Correlation (MECC) model. The paper applies the WDCC approach to the exponential GARCH (EGARCH) and GJR models to propose asymmetric DCC models. We use the standardized multivariate t-distribution to accommodate heavy-tailed errors. The paper presents a...