On the price dynamics of non-fungible tokens: The ‘Bored Apes’ case

Roberto Cellini, Tiziana Cuccia and Johan Lyrvall

PLOS ONE, 2023, vol. 18, issue 11, 1-20

Abstract: We analyse the pattern of daily price of a collection of artistic non-fungible tokens, namely, the “Bored Ape Yacht Club” (BAYC) collectibles, over the first year of their life, from May 2021 to May 2022. Taking a time-series analysis approach, we consider the daily average price, and other variants of daily price index, derived from hedonic regression model. Aesthetic features of the collectibles do matter. At the same time, the price series emerge to be non-stationary, integrated of order 1, with their first difference exhibiting heteroscedasticity and autoregressive variance. Models of ARCH/GARCH class are appropriate to describe the dynamics. Though the price series of BAYC collectibles and their daily movements share many characteristics with the series of financial assets, they do not appear to be related to financial variables from both the crypto- and the real (i.e., not crypto) world.

Date: 2023
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