Relationship between Bitcoin and the stock market – can bitcoin serve as a safe haven for investors?
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Aim: As a new asset class, Bitcoin and other cryptocurren-cies can be interesting for investors in the context of return stabilization, especially in times of crisis. We aimed to anal-yse whether Bitcoin can serve as a safe haven for investors in times of crisis.Methods: The data covers the period from September 17, 2014, to April 29, 2021, with 382 observations. Yahoo! Finance served as the source for the Bitcoin prices and Investing.com for the values of the Standard & Poor’s 500 (S&P500) Index. We used the maximum likelihood method to estimate the dynamic conditional correlation model.Results: Due to the high volatility during the analysed peri-od, Bitcoin achieved a higher risk-adjusted return compared to the S&P500 Index. The DCC model showed a positive cor-relation between the returns of the S&P500 and Bitcoin during the analysed period.Conclusions: Our results suggest that Bitcoin may not serve as a safe haven for investors in times of crisis. However, its role in this context should be further evaluated by examin-ing its relationship with other traditional asset classes (gold, commodities) and other types of cryptocurrencies such as stablecoins.
Source: St open
DOI: 10.48188/so.5.6
Authors: Julija Božan, Josip Visković
Institution: University of Split
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4401887646