Cryptocurrencies, gold, and WTI crude oil market efficiency: a dynamic analysis based on the adaptive market hypothesis

Majid Mirzaee Ghazani () and Mohammad Ali Jafari
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Majid Mirzaee Ghazani: K. N. Toosi University of Technology
Mohammad Ali Jafari: K. N. Toosi University of Technology

Financial Innovation, 2021, vol. 7, issue 1, 1-26

Abstract: Abstract This study examined the evolving oil market efficiency by applying daily historical data to the three benchmark cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ripple), gold, and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil. The data coverage of daily returns was from August 2015 to April 2019. We applied two alternative tests to examine linear and nonlinear dependency, i.e., automatic portmanteau and generalized spectral tests. The analysis of observed results validated the adaptive market hypothesis (AMH) in all markets, but the degree of adaptability between the data was different. In this study, we also analyzed the existence of evolutionary behavior in the market. To achieve this goal, we checked the results by applying the rolling-window method with three different window lengths (50, 100, and 150 days) on the test statistics, which was consistent with the findings of AMH.

Keywords: Adaptive market hypothesis; Market efficiency; Cryptocurrency; Evolutionary; Rolling windows (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1186/s40854-021-00246-0

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