R help - May 2011 - DCC-GARCH model and AR(1)-GARCH(1, 1) regression model - help needed..

Hello,
I have a rather complex problem... I will have to explain everything in
detail because I cannot solve it by myself...i just ran out of ideas. So
here is what I want to do:
I take quotes of two indices - S&P500 and DJ. And my first aim is to
estimate coefficients of the DCC-GARCH model for them. This is how I do it:


library(tseries)
p1 = get.hist.quote(instrument = "^gspc",start =
"2005-01-07",end "2009-09-04",compression = "w",
quote="AdjClose")
p2 = get.hist.quote(instrument = "^dji",start =
"2005-01-07",end "2009-09-04",compression = "w",
quote="AdjClose")
p = cbind(p1,p2)
y = diff(log(p))*100
y[,1] = y[,1]-mean(y[,1])
y[,2] = y[,2]-mean(y[,2])
T = length(y[,1])

library(ccgarch)
library(fGarch)

f1 = garchFit(~ garch(1,1), data=y[,1],include.mean=FALSE)
f1 = f1@fit$coef
f2 = garchFit(~ garch(1,1), data=y[,2],include.mean=FALSE)
f2 = f2@fit$coef

a = c(f1[1], f2[1])
A = diag(c(f1[2],f2[2]))
B = diag(c(f1[3], f2[3]))
dccpara = c(0.2,0.6)
dccresults = dcc.estimation(inia=a, iniA=A, iniB=B, ini.dcc=dccpara,dvar=y,
model="diagonal")

dccresults$out
DCCrho = dccresults$DCC[,2]
matplot(DCCrho, type='l')

dccresults$out deliver me the estimated coefficients of the DCC-GARCH model.
And here is my first question:
How can I check if these coefficients are significant or not? How can I test
them for significance?

second question would be:
Is this true that matplot(DCCrho, type='l') shows conditional
correlation
between the two indices in question?


Ok. This would be it when it comes to DCC-GARCH.

Now, using conditional correlation obtained from the DCC-GARCH model, I want
to test for structural shifts in conditional correlations. To be precise, I
want to test whether the conditional correlations significantly increase in
the turmoil period / during the Subprime crisis.
The regression model is AR(1)-GARCH(1,1), using a dummy variable specified
as

where the first equation is the conditional correlation among the two
indices during the Subprime crisis, Dt is a dummy variable for the turmoil
period, and the second equation (hij,t) is the conditional variance of eij,t

The aim is, of course, to find the estimates of the regression model on
structural shifts in the conditional correlations obtained in the DCC-GARCH
model.

I found an information that there is no function for AR(1)-GARCH(1,1)
regression model. That's why it has to be done in two steps:
1) estimate the AR parameters
2) estimate the GARCH part of the model on the residuals from the AR model

And this would be my rather poor idea of how to do it...


library(timeSeries)
library(fSeries)
step1 = arma(DCCrho, order = c(1,0), include.intercept = TRUE)
step1$res
step11 = na.remove(step1$res)
step2 = garch (step11, order = c(1,1), include.intercept = TRUE)


To be honest I have no clue how to do it. I don't even now why do I get a
missing value as a result of step1 (step1$res[1]) and how to account for it?
Above, I just removed it but then I have a smaller number of
observations...and this is probably wrong.
And then these GARCH estimates on the residuals...does that make sense at
all?


I know the mail is quite looong, but hopefully, someone will find time to
give me a hand because I have to solve the problem and I reached the point
where I cannot move forward without someone's help. There is not much
information on how to apply DCC-GARCH model and AR(1)-GARCH(1,1) regression
model in the Internet. Hopefully, some of you are familiar with it.

Thank you very much in advance, people of good will, for looking at what I
wrote and helping me.

Best regards
Marcin

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