In this study, we analyze stock market performance of 46 firms that show very large price rises in COVID-19 times for the period 21/11/2019 – 20/1/2021. These cover 6 industries - work-from-home companies, stay-at-home companies, Cryptocurrency companies, Bitcoin companies, Coronavirus Vaccine...

Are gold-backed cryptocurrencies as stable as gold during crises? In this paper, we assess whether gold-backed stablecoins, purported to be safer than other cryptocurrencies indeed demonstrate safe haven characteristics during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the digital assets’ ecosystem,...

This paper examines and compares financial market reaction and recovery of four broad classes of financial assets – equity indexes, precious metals, 10-year benchmark bonds and cryptocurrencies, to the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the Yang and Zhao (2020) quantile unit-root tests for return...

Cryptocurrencies are a new investment asset class that are often plagued by accusations of unethical, fraudulent, and illegal activity. Scholarly articles largely agree on the argument that despite their high volatility, cryptocurrency markets continue to attract investors due to the abnormal...

In this paper we analyze dynamic demand elasticity for Bitcoin and Ethereum in terms of price, transaction fees, and energy usage. We find that while both BTC and ETH have significantly positive price elasticities, transaction fee elasticity is negative and positive for BTC and ETH respectively,...

The crypto market has experienced several serious crises in recent years, the most contemporary being the collapse of Terra and then FTX. Despite common belief that these could imply the end of the crypto era, our analysis highlights no significant increases and decreases in systemic risk and...

In this paper we analyze dynamic demand elasticity for Bitcoin and Ethereum in terms of price, transaction fees, and energy usage. We find that while both BTC and ETH have significantly positive price elasticities, transaction fee elasticity is negative and positive for BTC and ETH respectively,...

Czarnitzki and Stadtmann (2005) measure the interdependence of demand for investment advice (approximated by sales of investor magazines) and stock prices. They find strong evidence that confirms the presence of the disposition effect, i.e. the empirical observation that investors sell winners...

In this study we quantify and analyze the dynamic dependence between US, Euro Zone, UK and Japan Bitcoin market returns and realized and unexpected inflation, conditional on different market states and various nuances of inflation. Using a Quantile-on-Quantile regression, we investigate the...