Chan, Stephen; Chu, Jeffrey; Nadarajah, Saralees; … - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 10 (2017) 2, pp. 1-23
We analyze statistical properties of the largest cryptocurrencies (determined by market capitalization), of which Bitcoin is the most prominent example. We characterize their exchange rates versus the U.S. Dollar by fitting parametric distributions to them. It is shown that returns are clearly...
