The inefficiency of Bitcoin revisited: A dynamic approach

Aurelio Fernandez Bariviera

Economics Letters, 2017, vol. 161, issue C, 1-4

Abstract: This letter revisits the informational efficiency of the Bitcoin market. In particular we analyze the time-varying behavior of long memory of returns on Bitcoin and volatility 2011 until 2017, using the Hurst exponent. Our results are twofold. First, R/S method is prone to detect long memory, whereas DFA method can discriminate more precisely variations in informational efficiency across time. Second, daily returns exhibit persistent behavior in the first half of the period under study, whereas its behavior is more informational efficient since 2014. Finally, price volatility, measured as the logarithmic difference between intraday high and low prices exhibits long memory during all the period. This reflects a different underlying dynamic process generating the prices and volatility.

Keywords: Bitcoin; Long range dependence; Volatility; Hurst exponent (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G01 G14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2017.09.013

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