On the volatility of cryptocurrencies

Theodore Panagiotidis, Georgios Papapanagiotou and Thanasis Stengos

Research in International Business and Finance, 2022, vol. 62, issue C

Abstract: We perform a large-scale analysis to evaluate the performance of traditional and Markov-switching GARCH models for the volatility of 292 cryptocurrencies. For each cryptocurrency, we estimate a total of 27 alternative GARCH specifications. We consider models that allow up to three different regimes. First, the models are compared in terms of goodness-of-fit using the Deviance Information Criterion and the Bayesian Predictive Information Criterion. Next, we evaluate the ability of the models in forecasting one-day ahead conditional volatility and Value-at-Risk. The results indicate that for a wide range of cryptocurrencies, time-varying models outperform traditional ones.

Keywords: Bitcoin; Cryptocurrency; Volatility; GARCH; Markov-switching; Information criteria (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C12 C13 C15 C22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ribaf.2022.101724

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