“…As far as the econometric framework is concerned, unlike the existing studies on modeling volatility of the BRICS stock markets based on univariate models from the generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH)-family (see for example, Babikir et al, (2012), Aye et al, (2014), Kishor & Singh (2014), Adu et al, (2015), Bouri et al, (2018) for detailed reviews), we use the GARCH variant of the mixed data sampling (MIDAS), i.e., the GARCH-MIDAS model. The reason behind this is that, while stock market data is at a daily frequency, the oil shocks used as predictors are available only at the monthly frequency, and hence the modeling of volatility requires a MIDAS-based approach.…”