We use the database leak of Mt. Gox exchange to analyze the dynamics of the price of bitcoin from June 2011 to November 2013. This gives us a rare opportunity to study an emerging retail-focused, highly speculative and unregulated market with trader identifiers at a tick transaction level. Jumps...

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....

While attention is a predictor for digital asset prices, and jumps in Bitcoin prices are well-known, we know little about its alternatives. Studying high frequency crypto data gives us the unique possibility to confirm that cross market digital asset returns are driven by high frequency jumps...

This is the first paper that estimates the price determinants of BitCoin in a Generalised Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity framework using high frequency data. Derived from a theoretical model, we estimate BitCoin transaction demand and speculative demand equations in a GARCH...

This study explores the stylized facts, volatility clustering, other highly irregular behaviour, and risk measures of cryptocurrencies' returns. By analysing bitcoin, ripple, and ethereum daily data we establish evidence of strong dependencies among analysed cryptocurrencies. This paper provides...

This research analyses high-frequency data of the cryptocurrency market in regards to intraday trading patterns. We study trading quantitatives such as returns, traded volumes, volatility periodicity, and provide summary statistics of return correlations to CRIX (CRyptocurrency IndeX), as well...

Bitcoin plunged by 30% on May 19, 2021. We examine the outage the largest crypto exchange Binance experienced during the crash, when it halted trading for retail clients and stopped providing transaction data. We find evidence that Binance back-filled these missing transactions with data that...

Using high-frequency price and volume data from several large exchanges, we show that FOMC and CPI announcements have a massive impact on Bitcoin's realized volatility and volume. However, this effect is a recent phenomenon, which started as inflation rose at the beginning of 2021. We also...

Purpose: Modelling security prices seem to be an ending debate in finance literature due to no clear consensus on behavioral patterns, Knowledge of stock price movement has always been an important source of information that is much needed in asset pricing and trading strategies, The aim of this...

This study examines the impact of firm characteristics, signaling variables and financial variables on IPO initial returns and the volatility of initial returns. Hierarchical regression is first performed on all the three blocks of variables, after which a stepwise regression is executed to...