“…10). Some of the recent contributions which employ copulas to capture time-varying dependencies are Okimoto (2008), Ng (2008, Guégan and Zhang (2010), Dias andEmbrechts (2010), Silva Filho, Ziegelmann, andDueker (2012), and De Lira Salvatierra and Patton (2015). However, these studies and the majority of research on copulas are conducted on the bivariate level.…”