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Cryptocurrencies As an Asset Class?

Traders Magazine Online News, January 17, 2019

Daniele Bianchi

Is crypto its own asset class?

It's a question that is currently happening all over the financial markets. University of Warwick Business School scholar Daniele Bianchi attempts to answer the question in a recently updated an published paper on the subject titled " Cryptocurrencies as an Asset Class? An Empirical Assessment.

Bianchi empirically investigates some of the key features of cryptocurrency returns and volatilities such as their relationship with traditional asset classes, as well as the main driving factors behind market activity. She notes the main empirical results suggest that while there is a mild relationship between returns on cryptocurrencies and commodities, e.g., gold and energy, such relationship does not translates in volatility spillover effects.

"Consistent with existing theoretical models in which trading activity is primarily driven by investors' sentiment, I show that traded volume is primarily driven by past returns and by a short-lived effect of aggregate market uncertainty. Finally, impulse-response functions from a panel Vector Autoregressive (VAR) model show that macroeconomic factors do not significantly drive trading activity in cryptocurrency markets."

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