The return volatility of cryptocurrencies during the COVID-19 pandemic: Assessing the news effect

Afees Salisu and Ahamuefula Ogbonna

Global Finance Journal, 2022, vol. 54, issue C

Abstract: In this paper, we test the role of news in the predictability of return volatility of digital currency market during the COVID-19 pandemic. We use hourly data for cryptocurrencies and daily data for the news indicator, thus, the GARCH MIDAS framework which allows for mixed data frequencies is adopted. We validate the presupposition that fear-induced news triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic increases the return volatilities of the cryptocurrencies compared with the period before the pandemic. We also establish that the predictive model that incorporates the news effects forecasts the return volatility better than the benchmark (historical average)model.

Keywords: Cryptocurrencies; COVID-19; News; GARCH MIDAS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D83 G01 G15 G17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.gfj.2021.100641

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