Ten Things You Should Know About the Dynamic Conditional Correlation Representation

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University of Canterbury. Department of Economics and Finance
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2013
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Caporin, M.
McAleer, M.
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The purpose of the paper is to discuss ten things potential users should know about the limits of the Dynamic Conditional Correlation (DCC) representation for estimating and fore-casting time-varying conditional correlations. The reasons given for caution about the use of DCC include the following: DCC represents the dynamic conditional covariances of the stand-ardized residuals, and hence does not yield dynamic conditional correlations; DCC is stated rather than derived; DCC has no moments; DCC does not have testable regularity conditions; DCC yields inconsistent two step estimators; DCC has no asymptotic properties; DCC is not a special case of GARCC, which has testable regularity conditions and standard asymptotic prop-erties; DCC is not dynamic empirically as the effect of news is typically extremely small; DCC cannot be distinguished empirically from diagonal BEKK in small systems; and DCC may be a useful filter or a diagnostic check, but it is not a model.

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Caporin, M., McAleer, M. (2013) Ten Things You Should Know About the Dynamic Conditional Correlation Representation. Department of Economics and Finance College of Business and Economics University of Canterbury..
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DCC representation, BEKK, GARCC, stated representation, derived model, condi-tional covariances, conditional correlations, regularity conditions, moments, two step estimators, assumed properties, asymptotic properties, filter, diagnostic check
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Field of Research::14 - Economics
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