The causal relationship between Bitcoin attention and Bitcoin returns : Evidence from the Copula-based Granger causality test

Shabbir Dastgir; Ender Demir; Gareth Downing; Giray Gozgor; Chi Keung Marco Lau

doi:10.1016/j.frl.2018.04.019

The causal relationship between Bitcoin attention and Bitcoin returns : Evidence from the Copula-based Granger causality test

Shabbir Dastgir, Ender Demir, Gareth Downing, Giray Gozgor, Chi Keung Marco Lau

TUBS Business Management

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Abstract

This paper examines the causal relationship between Bitcoin attention (measured by the Google Trends search queries) and Bitcoin returns for the period from January 1, 2013, to December 31, 2017. For this purpose, we employ the Copula-based Granger Causality in Distribution (CGCD) test. After implementing various robustness checks, we observe that there is a bi-directional causal relationship between Bitcoin attention and Bitcoin returns with the exception of the central distributions from 40% to 80%. To put it differently, the bidirectional causality mainly exists in the left tail (poor performance) and the right tail (superior performance) of the distribution.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	160-164
Number of pages	5
Journal	Finance Research Letters
Volume	28
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2018.04.019
Publication status	Published - 12 Mar 2019

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