This brief note offers an explicit algorithm for a multivariate GARCH model, called PC-GARCH, that requires only univariate GARCH estimation. It is suitable for problems with hundreds or even thousands of variables. PC-GARCH is compared to two other techniques of getting multivariate GARCH using univariate estimates.

Volatility modelling of asset returns is an important aspect for many financial applications, e.g., option pricing and risk management. GARCH models are usually used to model the volatility processes of financial time series. However, multivariate GARCH modelling of volatilities is still a challenge due to the complexity of parameters estimation. To solve this problem, we suggest using Independ...

To capture the missed information in the standardized errors by parametric multivariate generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (MV-GARCH) model, we propose a new semiparametric MV-GARCH (SM-GARCH) model. This SM-GARCH model is a twostep model: firstly estimating parametric MV-GARCH model, then using nonparametric skills to model the conditional covariance matrix of the standa...

Estimation of multivariate GARCH models is usually carried out by quasi maximum likelihood (QMLE), for which recently consistency and asymptotic normality have been proven under quite general conditions. However, there are to date no results on the efficiency loss of QMLE if the true innovation distribution is not multinormal. We investigate this issue by suggesting a nonparametric estimation o...