This paper investigates whether the change of crypto-trading volume can affect the occurrence of terror attacks. We find that an increase in the Bitcoin and Ethereum trading volume is related to the higher probability of the occurrence of terror attacks while other main cryptocurrencies have no...

This study investigates the relationship between the daily returns of cryptocurrencies and their realized performance measure and moments (variance, skewness, and kurtosis). Because the cryptocurrency returns are non-Gaussian distributions and perform bubble-like behaviors, we adopt the...

This paper investigates whether partisan conflict can predict the cryptocurrency return and volatility. First, we find that the change rate of the partisan conflict can predict positively (negatively) the cryptocurrency return (volatility), Bitcoin in particular. Moreover, the findings still...

This paper studies the relationship between the COVID-19, an infectious disease, and different financial assets. We find that the change in the newly confirmed cases per thousand people in US rather than that in China can positively predict the S&P 500 return. Moreover, we find that the change...

In this paper, we investigate whether the Bitcoin return can predict the electricity net generation in the United States. By utilizing the data from February 2014 to July 2019, we find that higher Bitcoin return leads to a higher electricity net generation via the possible channel that increases...