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What causes the attention of Bitcoin?

What causes the attention of Bitcoin?
What causes the attention of Bitcoin?
Bitcoin has received enormous attention both by the media and investors alike. But why has Bitcoin received such attention? This paper answers this question by examining the relationship between investor attention and Bitcoin fundamentals and finds that realized volatility and volume are both significant drivers of next day attention of Bitcoin.
0165-1765
40-44
Urquhart, Andrew
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Urquhart, Andrew
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Urquhart, Andrew (2018) What causes the attention of Bitcoin? Economics Letters, 166, 40-44. (doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2018.02.017).

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Bitcoin has received enormous attention both by the media and investors alike. But why has Bitcoin received such attention? This paper answers this question by examining the relationship between investor attention and Bitcoin fundamentals and finds that realized volatility and volume are both significant drivers of next day attention of Bitcoin.

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Accepted/In Press date: 5 February 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 20 February 2018
Published date: May 2018

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Local EPrints ID: 417756
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/417756
DOI: doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2018.02.017
ISSN: 0165-1765
PURE UUID: 2ddb021f-2637-4c59-bf36-d9fb52e3c485
ORCID for Andrew Urquhart: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-8834-4243

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Date deposited: 13 Feb 2018 17:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 06:11

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Author: Andrew Urquhart ORCID iD

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