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Liquidity Connectedness of Cryptocurrencies and Stock Markets during COVID-19: A Wavelet Coherence Approach
SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Muhammad Umar, East China Jiaotong University
  • Ghulame Rubbaniy, Zayed University
  • Yan Xu, East China Jiaotong University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-21-2021
Abstract

Using wavelet coherence framework on five major cryptocurrencies and three major stock market indices over the COVID-19 period from January 1st, 2020 to February 8th, 2021, our study concludes that SSEC index liquidity co-moves with liquidity of all the cryptocurrencies, while liquidities of Nikkei 225 and NYSE indices very weakly or not at all co-move with the sampled cryptocurrencies over most of our sample period. Our findings show that SSEC index liquidity positively co-moves with liquidities of all sampled crypto currencies over a limited time span and generally at short-term frequency band of 0-8 days; however, Ripple liquidity positively co-moves with liquidity of SSEC index at both shorter-horizon and long-term. Overall, our study provides useful insights that the choice of the crypto currency can play a significant role in portfolio liquidity diversification for investors investing in Nikkei 225 or NYSE index.

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Open Access Type
Green: A manuscript of this publication is openly available in a repository
https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3805920
Citation Information
Muhammad Umar, Ghulame Rubbaniy and Yan Xu. "Liquidity Connectedness of Cryptocurrencies and Stock Markets during COVID-19: A Wavelet Coherence Approach" SSRN Electronic Journal (2021) ISSN: <a href="https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/issn/1556-5068" target="_blank">1556-5068</a>
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/ghulame-rubbaniy/15/