In an era where traditional investment paradigms are being constantly redefined by technological innovation and the global push towards sustainability, Themes in Alternative Investments emerges as a seminal volume designed to guide investors, finance professionals, and scholars through the...

The hedging and safe haven properties of Bitcoin for the US dollar are investigated across a variety of investment horizons. Our findings reveal that (i) Bitcoin acts as a weak hedge for all currency pairs examined, with some evidence of negative average dependency for Euro, Swiss Franc and...

We test for the existence of bubbles in DeFi-focused cryptocurrencies, seeking to identify key driving forces that distinguish DeFi tokens from conventional cryptocurrencies. Conducting Supremum Augmented Dickey-Fuller, and Hacker-Hatemi-J modified Wald tests, as well as Diebold-Yilmaz return...

We employ a VARMA DCC-GARCH model to search for portfolio diversification with Bitcoin in global industry portfolios and bond index. We find lower dynamic conditional correlations between Bitcoin and industry portfolios & bond index, allowing an investment in Bitcoin to hedge the risk against...