“…β dcc measures the lingering effect of a shock impact on the conditional correlations, which means the persistency of the conditional correlation process. ρ ij,t measures the degree of covariance between two assets in relation to the market's individual variances (Savva, 2009). 15 The rule of thumb for misspecification test is that as long as there is consistency in the step 1 estimation of the DCC-MGARCH model, it will ensure estimation in step 2 is consistent and able to generate the true parameters (Engel, 2002).…”