SPECULATIVE BUBBLE TENDENCIES IN TIME SERIES OF BITCOIN MARKET PRICES

This article explores the concepts of cryptocurrencies and speculative bubbles, as Bitcoin's price behaviour shares characteristics with speculative bubbles that have occurred in recent years. Using a quantitative research design, the study examines daily market prices for the period between 20...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Michael Demmler, Amilcar Orlian Fernández Domínguez
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:México
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro
Repositorio:Redalyc-UAQ
OAI Identifier:oai:redalyc.org:282174161006
Acceso en línea:https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=282174161006
https://www.redalyc.org/journal/2821/282174161006/
https://www.redalyc.org/journal/2821/282174161006/html/
https://www.redalyc.org/journal/2821/282174161006/282174161006.epub
https://www.redalyc.org/journal/2821/282174161006/movil
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Economía y Finanzas
speculation
Cryptocurrency
asset price bubble
time series analysis
Descripción
Sumario:This article explores the concepts of cryptocurrencies and speculative bubbles, as Bitcoin's price behaviour shares characteristics with speculative bubbles that have occurred in recent years. Using a quantitative research design, the study examines daily market prices for the period between 2013 and 2019. Statistical moments, return stationarity, TARCH-type model estimations and Supremum Augmented Dickey-Fuller and Generalised Supremum Augmented Dickey-Fuller tests are analysed. We find evidence for multiple speculative bubble tendencies in Bit-coin prices caused by speculation, which reached their maximum at the end of 2017. Our results are in line with recent studies, which characterise Bitcoin as both highly speculative and vulnerable to financial bubbles.