ON THE RELATION BETWEEN THE VEC AND BEKK MULTIVARIATE GARCH MODELS

Robert Stelzer

Econometric Theory, 2008, vol. 24, issue 04, pages 1131-1136

Abstract: The question of which multivariate generalized autoregressive conditionally heteroskedastic (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 that map the vectorized positive semidefinite matrices into a strict subset of themselves. Moreover, a general result from linear algebra is presented implying that in dimension two the models are equivalent, and in dimension three a simple analytically tractable example for a vec model having no BEKK representation is given.

Date: 2008

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