Cryptocurrency has become an important part of the investing landscape, arising from a major shift in global payment methods. This book conducts a thorough review of the most important elements that investors need to know about Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and Blockchain,...

We utilize a unique data from the recent wave of Survey of Consumer Finance 2019 to analyze the portfolio choice of a new and raising asset class: cryptocurrency. Namely, who owns crypto and why? We first analyze how key households’ demographic (age, gender, race, etc.) and household’s...

This paper analyses the prospect of cryptocurrency regulation, especially, on crypto prices, volatility and volume. We employ the Google Trend technique and introduce the Crypto Regulation Sentiment Index (CRSX) that reflects Crypto regulation fear at the US and Global levels. We utilize over...

We present a theoretical and empirical methodology that reflects the Cryptocurrency version of VIX, which we name it as CVIX (Crypto VIX), and captures the future 30 days forward Crypto risk (fear). Our framework is built on idiosyncratic and systematic Crypto risk, and is not based on the...