“…Nevertheless, empirical studies have revealed that long memory GARCH (LM-GARCH) models are very successful in accurately forecasting the conditional volatility of asset returns and often outperform short memory GARCH type models (see, among others, Giot andLaurent, 2003, Degiannakis* (2004), Tang andShieh, 2006, Grané andVeiga (2008), Härdle and Mungo (2008), Morana, 2009, Demiralay andUlusoy, 2014 and Aloui and Ben Hamida, 2015).…”