We extend our understanding on the role of wine investment within a portfolio of different assets (US/UK equities, bonds, gold, and housing) by considering a rich methodology based, among others, on the mean-variance and stochastic-dominance approaches. The main findings suggest that wine is the...

We examine the presence of outliers and time-varying jumps in the returns of four major cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Dogecoin, Litecoin), and a broad cryptocurrency index (CCI30). The results indicate that only Bitcoin returns are contaminated with outliers. Time-varying jumps...

In this paper, we examine whether the economic policy uncertainty (EPU) index can predict the cryptocurrency returns for countries with the highest number of Bitcoin nodes, which include U.S., Germany, France, Netherlands, Singapore, Canada, the UK, China, Russia, and Japan. To the extent...