Predictability of bitcoin returns
Predictability of bitcoin returns
This paper comprehensively examines the performance of a host of popular variables to predict Bitcoin returns. We show that time-series momentum, economic policy uncertainty, and financial uncertainty outperform other predictors in all in-sample, out-of-sample, and asset allocation tests. Bitcoin returns have no exposure to common stock and bond market factors but rather are affected by Bitcoin-specific and external uncertainty factors.
Bitcoin, certainty equivalent return, forecasting, return predictability, time-series momentum
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Cheah, Jeremy
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Luo, Di
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Zhang, Zhuang
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Sung, Ming-Chien
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Cheah, Jeremy
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Luo, Di
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Zhang, Zhuang
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Sung, Ming-Chien
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Cheah, Jeremy, Luo, Di, Zhang, Zhuang and Sung, Ming-Chien
(2022)
Predictability of bitcoin returns.
European Journal of Finance, 28 (1), .
(doi:10.1080/1351847X.2020.1835685).
Abstract
This paper comprehensively examines the performance of a host of popular variables to predict Bitcoin returns. We show that time-series momentum, economic policy uncertainty, and financial uncertainty outperform other predictors in all in-sample, out-of-sample, and asset allocation tests. Bitcoin returns have no exposure to common stock and bond market factors but rather are affected by Bitcoin-specific and external uncertainty factors.
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Submitted date: 9 June 2019
Accepted/In Press date: 6 October 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 5 November 2020
Published date: 1 January 2022
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We thank Chris Adcock (the Editor), two anonymous referees, Fergal Carton, Andrew Detzel, Gerhard Kling, Athanasios Sakkas, Chris Stanley, and Andrew Urquhart for their insightful comments and suggestions. We are also grateful for helpful comments and suggestions from conference participants at Financial Inclusion and Fintech SOAS University of London, 2019 and Cryptocurrency Research Conference, University of Southampton, 2019.
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Keywords:
Bitcoin, certainty equivalent return, forecasting, return predictability, time-series momentum
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Local EPrints ID: 444582
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/444582
ISSN: 1351-847X
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