Fractional cointegration in bitcoin spot and futures markets

被引:17
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作者
Wu, Jinghong [1 ]
Xu, Ke [1 ]
Zheng, Xinwei [2 ]
Chen, Jian [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Victoria, Dept Econ, Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2, Canada
[2] Deakin Univ, Dept Finance, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
[3] Queens Univ, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Kingston, ON, Canada
关键词
bitcoin; Covid-19; pandemic; fractional cointegration; price discovery; spot and futures markets; PRICE DISCOVERY; MODEL; COMMODITY;
D O I
10.1002/fut.22216
中图分类号
F8 [财政、金融];
学科分类号
0202 ;
摘要
This paper adopts the fractional cointegrated vector autoregressive (FCVAR) model to examine high-frequency price discovery of bitcoin spot and futures prices from December 18, 2017 to July 31, 2020. We find that bitcoin spot and futures prices exhibit long memory properties and they are fractionally cointegrated. The result shows that the bitcoin futures market dominates the price discovery process. Interestingly, during the Covid-19 pandemic, the bitcoin price discovery leadership has switched to the spot market. Moreover, we find that the bitcoin futures market follows a long-run contango. The nonfractional CVAR model overestimates the price discovery of the futures market.
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页码:1478 / 1494
页数:17
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