“…At this point it is worth noting that modelling positively correlated claims has been explored by many articles. See for example, Bermúdez and Karlis (2011), Bermúdez and Karlis (2012), Shi and Valdez (2014a, b), Abdallah et al (2016), Bermúdez and Karlis (2017), Bermúdez et al (2018), Bermúdez et al (2018), Pechon et al (2018), Pechon et al (2019), Bolancé and Vernic (2019), Fung et al (2019, Bolancé et al (2020), Pechon et al (2021), Jeong and Dey (2021), Gómez-Déniz and Calderín-Ojeda (2021), Tzougas and di Cerchiara (2021a, b) and Bermúdez and Karlis (2021). Finally, the proportion of zeros and kurtosis show that the marginal distributions of X 1,t , X 2,t are positively skewed and exhibit a fat-tailed structure which indicates the appropriateness of adopting a positive skewed and fat-tailed distribution (GIG distribution).…”