Investing during a Fintech revolution: ambiguity and return risk in cryptocurrencies
Investing during a Fintech revolution: ambiguity and return risk in cryptocurrencies
Rationally justifying Bitcoin's immense price fluctuations has remained a persistent challenge for both investors and researchers in this field. A primary reason is our potential weakness toward robustly quantifying unquantifiable risks or ambiguity in Bitcoin returns. This paper introduces a behavioral channel to argue that the degree of ambiguity aversion is a prominent source of abnormal returns from investment in Bitcoin markets. Using data over a ten-year period, we show that Bitcoin investors exhibit, on average, an increasing aversion to ambiguity. Furthermore, investors are found to earn abnormal returns only when ambiguity is low. Robustness exercises reassure on the validity of our results.
Abnormal returns, Ambiguity, Bitcoin
Luo, Di
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Mishra, Tapas
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Yarovaya, Larisa
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Zhang, Zhuang
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Luo, Di
cc1b0fa7-f630-45dc-ab05-495f9023148f
Mishra, Tapas
218ef618-6b3e-471b-a686-15460da145e0
Yarovaya, Larisa
2bd189e8-3bad-48b0-9d09-5d96a4132889
Zhang, Zhuang
df7b9fa8-04fd-4085-b74d-c9c1506b974e
Luo, Di, Mishra, Tapas, Yarovaya, Larisa and Zhang, Zhuang
(2021)
Investing during a Fintech revolution: ambiguity and return risk in cryptocurrencies.
Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 73, [101362].
(doi:10.1016/j.intfin.2021.101362).
Abstract
Rationally justifying Bitcoin's immense price fluctuations has remained a persistent challenge for both investors and researchers in this field. A primary reason is our potential weakness toward robustly quantifying unquantifiable risks or ambiguity in Bitcoin returns. This paper introduces a behavioral channel to argue that the degree of ambiguity aversion is a prominent source of abnormal returns from investment in Bitcoin markets. Using data over a ten-year period, we show that Bitcoin investors exhibit, on average, an increasing aversion to ambiguity. Furthermore, investors are found to earn abnormal returns only when ambiguity is low. Robustness exercises reassure on the validity of our results.
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Accepted/In Press date: 16 May 2021
e-pub ahead of print date: 21 May 2021
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Abnormal returns, Ambiguity, Bitcoin
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/449395
ISSN: 1042-4431
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