Bitcoin has attracted a wealth of attention in the media and by investors alike and this paper investigates whether Bitcoin can act as a hedge or safe-haven against world currencies. Contrary to previous studies, we assess the relationship between Bitcoin and currencies at the hourly frequency...

Using daily data for eight major cryptocurrencies and bivariate extreme value theory (peaks-over-threshold method), this study examines the extreme dependence between returns and trading volumes in the cryptocurrency market. It is shown that, irrespective of the cryptocurrency under...

Despite warnings issued by different financial institutions, cryptocurrencies are increasingly used for investment and speculation purposes. However, little is known about interdependencies within cryptocurrency markets. By employing an asymmetric Diagonal BEKK model, this paper examines...

Through the application of three pair-wise bivariate BEKK models, this paper examines the conditional volatility dynamics along with interlinkages and conditional correlations between three pairs of cryptocurrencies, namely Bitcoin, Ether and Litecoin. While cryptocurrency price volatility is...