Predictability of cryptocurrency returns: evidence from robust tests
The paper provides a comparative empirical study of predictability of cryptocurrency returns and prices using econometrically justified robust inference methods. We present robust econometric analysis of predictive regressions incorporating factors, which were suggested by Liu, Y., & Tsyvinski,...
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| description | The paper provides a comparative empirical study of predictability of cryptocurrency returns and prices using econometrically justified robust inference methods. We present robust econometric analysis of predictive regressions incorporating factors, which were suggested by Liu, Y., & Tsyvinski, A. (2018). Risks and returns of cryptocurrency. NBER working paper no. 24877; Liu, Y., & Tsyvinski, A. (2021). Risks and returns of cryptocurrency. The Review of Financial Studies, 34(6), 2689–2727, as useful predictors for cryptocurrency returns, including cryptocurrency momentum, stock market factors, acceptance of Bitcoin, and Google trends measure of investors’ attention. Due to inherent heterogeneity and dependence properties of returns and other time series in financial and crypto markets, we provide the analysis of the predictive regressions using both heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation consistent (HAC) standard-errors and also the recently developed tt-statistic robust inference approaches, Ibragimov, R., & Müller, U. K. (2010). t-statistic based correlation and heterogeneity robust inference. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 28, 453–468; Ibragimov, R., & Müller, U. K. (2016). Inference with few heterogeneous clusters. Review of Economics and Statistics, 98, 83–96. We provide comparisons of robust predictive regression estimates between different cryptocurrencies and their corresponding risk and factor exposures. In general, the number of significant factors decreases as we use more robust t-tests, and the t-statistic robust inference approaches appear to perform better than the t-tests based on HAC standard errors in terms of pointing out interpretable economic conclusions. The results in this paper emphasize the importance of the use of robust inference approaches in the analysis of economic and financial data affected by the problems of heterogeneity and dependence. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-65e60981555c486e94f1a3d00f2fe2402022-12-22T04:28:59ZengDe GruyterDependence Modeling2300-22982022-06-0110119120610.1515/demo-2022-0111Predictability of cryptocurrency returns: evidence from robust testsHe Siyun0Ibragimov Rustam1Department of Economics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USAImperial College Business School, South Kensington Campus, London SW20 8TE, United KingdomThe paper provides a comparative empirical study of predictability of cryptocurrency returns and prices using econometrically justified robust inference methods. We present robust econometric analysis of predictive regressions incorporating factors, which were suggested by Liu, Y., & Tsyvinski, A. (2018). Risks and returns of cryptocurrency. NBER working paper no. 24877; Liu, Y., & Tsyvinski, A. (2021). Risks and returns of cryptocurrency. The Review of Financial Studies, 34(6), 2689–2727, as useful predictors for cryptocurrency returns, including cryptocurrency momentum, stock market factors, acceptance of Bitcoin, and Google trends measure of investors’ attention. Due to inherent heterogeneity and dependence properties of returns and other time series in financial and crypto markets, we provide the analysis of the predictive regressions using both heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation consistent (HAC) standard-errors and also the recently developed tt-statistic robust inference approaches, Ibragimov, R., & Müller, U. K. (2010). t-statistic based correlation and heterogeneity robust inference. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 28, 453–468; Ibragimov, R., & Müller, U. K. (2016). Inference with few heterogeneous clusters. Review of Economics and Statistics, 98, 83–96. We provide comparisons of robust predictive regression estimates between different cryptocurrencies and their corresponding risk and factor exposures. In general, the number of significant factors decreases as we use more robust t-tests, and the t-statistic robust inference approaches appear to perform better than the t-tests based on HAC standard errors in terms of pointing out interpretable economic conclusions. The results in this paper emphasize the importance of the use of robust inference approaches in the analysis of economic and financial data affected by the problems of heterogeneity and dependence.https://doi.org/10.1515/demo-2022-0111bitcoincryptocurrenciespredictive regressionsrobust inferencehact-statistic inference62p2091b84 |
| spellingShingle | He Siyun Ibragimov Rustam Predictability of cryptocurrency returns: evidence from robust tests Dependence Modeling bitcoin cryptocurrencies predictive regressions robust inference hac t-statistic inference 62p20 91b84 |
| title | Predictability of cryptocurrency returns: evidence from robust tests |
| title_full | Predictability of cryptocurrency returns: evidence from robust tests |
| title_fullStr | Predictability of cryptocurrency returns: evidence from robust tests |
| title_full_unstemmed | Predictability of cryptocurrency returns: evidence from robust tests |
| title_short | Predictability of cryptocurrency returns: evidence from robust tests |
| title_sort | predictability of cryptocurrency returns evidence from robust tests |
| topic | bitcoin cryptocurrencies predictive regressions robust inference hac t-statistic inference 62p20 91b84 |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/demo-2022-0111 |
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