Financial liberalization has offered global investors with new investment opportunities via international portfolio diversification. Proper investment planning and portfolio diversification require well specified correlations between the assets under consideration. In this paper we apply the DCC...

Typical issues of multivariate GARCH models are dimensionality, which is time consuming, both in terms of computations and their programming, and the availability of very few distributional schemes, since linear correlations are a natural dependence measure, only if the joint distribution of the...

This paper examines the dynamic properties of Bitcoin and the Standard and Poor's SP500 index, using a variety of econometric approaches, including univariate and multivariate GARCH models, and vector autoregressive specifications. Moreover, we explore whether Bitcoin can be classified as a...