This paper investigates the link between Bitcoin and macroeconomic fundamentals by estimating the impact of … macroeconomic news on Bitcoin using an event study with intraday data. The key result is that, unlike other U.S. asset classes …, Bitcoin is orthogonal to monetary and macroeconomic news. This disconnect is puzzling as unexpected changes in discount rates …

This paper examines volatility spillovers from changes in the size of the balance sheets of the Federal Reserve (FED … most susceptible to positive volatility spillovers from both the FED and ECB in terms of magnitude. Positive volatility … about ten. By contrast, we find that EME stock markets are subject to negative volatility spillovers. Moreover, we find only …

the ECB from 2009 onwards have spilled over into asset price volatility developments of a group of six Central and Eastern … significant role in dampening volatility spikes in the financial markets of the countries at stake. This probably reflects how …

We introduce external risks, in the form of shocks to the level and volatility of world interest rates, into a small … interest rates and a persistent rise in their volatility. We solve for the optimal policy and argue that the size of a tax on …. We show quantitatively that these taxes respond to both the level and volatility of interest rates even though optimal …

This paper examines volatility spillovers from changes in the size of the balance sheets of the Federal Reserve (FED … most susceptible to positive volatility spillovers from both the FED and ECB in terms of magnitude. Positive volatility … about ten. By contrast, we find that EME stock markets are subject to negative volatility spillovers. Moreover, we find only …