“…In contrast, the current paper proposes MSV models with leverage effect, where structural errors follow the GH skew t-distribution. This is a natural extension of standard univariate stochastic volatility processes with skew distributions (e.g., Durham, 2007, Nakajima and Omori, 2012, Silva et al, 2006 to multivariate analysis; time-varying covariance components are incorporated based on the Cholesky decomposition of volatility matrices, which is increasingly used in time series analysis (e.g., Lopes et al, 2012, Pinheiro and Bates, 1996, Smith and Kohn, 2002.…”