“…When it comes to volatility modeling, the literature tells us that it is unlikely to find a model that perfectly describes our data (see Bollerslev, 1986) and that, out of hundreds of competing models, the simple GARCH(1, 1) model tends to perform best (see Hansen & Lunde, 2005). Therefore, supplemented by the fact that higher‐order autocorrelation of losses is typically negligible (see Campbell et al, 1993), researchers and practitioners often prefer AR(1)–GARCH(1, 1) settings (see Auer, 2015; Du & Escanciano, 2017; Le, 2020; McNeil & Frey, 2000). We follow this majority approach and use the specification where and are the parameters of the mean and variance equation, respectively.…”