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  • Article
  • Open Access
75 Citations
13,703 Views
12 Pages

Sentiment-Induced Bubbles in the Cryptocurrency Market

  • Cathy Yi-Hsuan Chen and
  • Christian M. Hafner

Cryptocurrencies lack clear measures of fundamental values and are often associated with speculative bubbles. This paper introduces a new way of testing for speculative bubbles based on StockTwits sentiment, which is used as the transition variable i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Alternative Assets and Cryptocurrencies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
  • Best Paper Award
60 Citations
10,148 Views
14 Pages

9 April 2020

Cryptocurrencies have recently captured the interest of the econometric literature, with several works trying to address the existence of bubbles in the price dynamics of Bitcoins and other cryptoassets. Extremely rapid price accelerations, often ref...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Financial Networks in Fintech Risk Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
861 Views
34 Pages

Although stablecoins occupy a segment of digital-asset markets in which price stability is central by design, their temporary departures from reference values may reveal important information about latent risk and market stress. In this paper, we exa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,395 Views
45 Pages

7 February 2023

Evidence that cryptocurrencies exhibit speculative bubble behavior is well documented. This evidence could trigger global financial instability leading to systemic risk. It is therefore crucial to quantify systemic risk and investigate its transmissi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
18,032 Views
21 Pages

21 November 2021

In this study, the Log-Periodic Power Law Singularity (LPPLS) model is adopted for real-time identification and monitoring of Bitcoin bubbles and crashes using different time scale data, and the modified Lagrange regularization method is proposed to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
  • Best Paper Award
42 Citations
46,451 Views
15 Pages

Cryptocurrency Risks, Fraud Cases, and Financial Performance

  • David S. Kerr,
  • Karen A. Loveland,
  • Katherine Taken Smith and
  • Lawrence Murphy Smith

23 February 2023

In this study, we examine major cryptocurrencies, present notable fraud cases, describe fraud risks, and analyze cryptocurrency financial performance. People debate whether cryptocurrency is an investment opportunity, the new Dutch Tulip Bubble, or a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cryptocurrencies and Risk Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,583 Views
10 Pages

We examine the significance of fourty-one potential covariates of bitcoin returns for the period 2010–2018 (2872 daily observations). The recently introduced principal component-guided sparse regression is employed. We reveal that economic poli...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Developments in Cryptocurrency Markets: Co-movements, Spillovers and Forecasting)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,215 Views
13 Pages

5 January 2022

The Bitcoin market exhibits characteristics of a market with pricing bubbles. The price is very volatile, and it inherits the risk of quickly increasing to a peak and decreasing from the peak even faster. In this context, it is vital for investors to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information in Economics, Finance and Insurance: Modelling and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,721 Views
22 Pages

31 May 2024

This paper explores the economic trends and identifies speculative bubbles within the emerging metaverse, based on the specific example of Decentraland, which is represented by its underlying native token MANA.For comparability, we consider three fur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,369 Views
25 Pages

Financial assets often exhibit explosive price surges followed by abrupt collapses, alongside persistent volatility clustering. Motivated by these features, we introduce a mixed causal–noncausal invertible–noninvertible autoregressive mov...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,141 Views
18 Pages

Understanding structural regime shifts in crypto asset markets is vital for early detection of systemic risk. This study applies the Generalized Sup Augmented Dickey–Fuller (GSADF) test to daily high-frequency price data of five major crypto as...

(This article belongs to the Section Risk)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,164 Views
19 Pages

This study attempts to investigate the nexus between investor sentiment and cryptocurrencies prices. Our empirical investigation merges bivariate and multivariate wavelet tools to examine the investor sentiment nexus to inter-cryptocurrencies prices....

(This article belongs to the Section Economics and Finance)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
44 Citations
9,273 Views
8 Pages

Contagion Effect in Cryptocurrency Market

  • Paulo Ferreira and
  • Éder Pereira

The rapid development of cryptocurrencies has drawn attention to this particular market, with investors trying to understand its behaviour and researchers trying to explain it. The evolution of cryptocurrencies’ prices showed a kind of bubble a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,134 Views
21 Pages

The Efficiency of Value-at-Risk Models during Extreme Market Stress in Cryptocurrencies

  • Danai Likitratcharoen,
  • Pan Chudasring,
  • Chakrin Pinmanee and
  • Karawan Wiwattanalamphong

1 March 2023

In recent years, the cryptocurrency market has been experiencing extreme market stress due to unexpected extreme events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia and Ukraine war, monetary policy uncertainty, and a collapse in the speculative bubble o...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
9,359 Views
15 Pages

Trading Cryptocurrencies as a Pandemic Pastime: COVID-19 Lockdowns and Bitcoin Volume

  • Alexander Guzmán,
  • Christian Pinto-Gutiérrez and
  • María-Andrea Trujillo

27 July 2021

This paper examines the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on Bitcoin trading volume. Using data from Apple mobility trends and several time-series econometric models, we find that investors became active participants during the COVID-19 pandemic period an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical and Statistical Methods Applications in Finance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
29,866 Views
23 Pages

This article explores the significance of Bitcoin halving events within the cryptocurrency ecosystem and their impact on market dynamics. While the existing literature addresses the periods before and after Bitcoin halving, as well as financial bubbl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Stability of Financial Markets and Sustainability Post-COVID-19)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,366 Views
21 Pages

This paper develops a novel entropy-based framework to quantify tail risk and detect speculative bubbles in financial markets. By integrating extreme value theory with information theory, I introduce the Tail-Weighted Entropy (TWE) measure, which cap...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 11th International Conference on Time Series and Forecasting)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,384 Views
21 Pages

After more than a decade of existence, crypto-currencies may now be considered an important class of assets presenting some unique appealing characteristics but also sharing some features with real financial assets. This paper provides a comprehensiv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Developments in Cryptocurrency Markets: Co-movements, Spillovers and Forecasting)
  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,418 Views
37 Pages

4 December 2025

This study conducts a bibliometric review of Bitcoin research in the Business and Economics domains, using VOSviewer to visualize network structures and Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers Topic (BERTopic) to derive semantically c...