Modeling of the Bitcoin Volatility through Key Financial Environment Variables: An Application of Conditional Correlation MGARCH Models

Ángeles Cebrián-Hernández and Enrique Jiménez-Rodríguez
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Ángeles Cebrián-Hernández: Department of Applied Economics, Universidad de Sevilla, 41018 Seville, Spain
Enrique Jiménez-Rodríguez: Department of Financial Economics and Accounting, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, 41013 Seville, Spain

Mathematics, 2021, vol. 9, issue 3, 1-16

Abstract: Since the launch of Bitcoin, there has been a lot of controversy surrounding what asset class it is. Several authors recognize the potential of cryptocurrencies but also certain deviations with respect to the functions of a conventional currency. Instead, Bitcoin’s diversifying factor and its high return potential have generated the attention of portfolio managers. In this context, understanding how its volatility is explained is a critical element of investor decision-making. By modeling the volatility of classic assets, nonlinear models such as Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (GARCH) offer suitable results. Therefore, taking GARCH(1,1) as a reference point, the main aim of this study is to model and assess the relationship between the Bitcoin volatility and key financial environment variables through a Conditional Correlation (CC) Multivariate GARCH (MGARCH) approach. For this, several commodities, exchange rates, stock market indices, and company stocks linked to cryptocurrencies have been tested. The results obtained show certain heterogeneity in the fit of the different variables, highlighting the uncorrelation with respect to traditional safe haven assets such as gold and oil. Focusing on the CC-MGARCH model, a better behavior of the dynamic conditional correlation is found compared to the constant.

Keywords: Bitcoin; volatility; key financial environment variables; multivariate GARCH models; constant conditional correlation; dynamic conditional correlation; varying conditional correlation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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