However, we explicitly allow for contemporaneous correlation, i.e.,
$$
\E \left[ u_{it} \, u_{jt} \right] = \sigma_{ij} .
$$
thus, the covariance matrix of all disturbances is
$$
\E \left[ u \, u^\top \right] = \Omega = \Sigma \otimes I_T ,
$$
where $\Sigma = \left[ \sigma_{ij} \right]$ is the (contemporaneous)
disturbance covariance matrix,
$\otimes$ is the Kronecker product,
$I_T$ is an identity matrix of dimension $T$,
and $T$ is the number of observations in each equation.