This paper examines how different categories of COVID–19 news sentiment differentially impact the behavior of cryptocurrency returns. A nonlinear technique of transfer entropy is applied to investigate the relationship between the top 30 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization and COVID–19...

Cryptocurrency investments are often perceived as uncertain and risky. In this study, we assessed if this is indeed the case, using a sample of seven cryptocurrencies and considered a period that encompassed the first real global shock in the life of these relatively new financial assets, the...