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COVID-19, Lockdowns and Herding Towards Cryptocurrency Market Specific Implied Volatility Index
SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Ghulame Rubbaniy, Zayed University
  • Stathis Polyzos, Zayed University
  • Syed Kumail Abbas Rizvi, Lahore School of Economics
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2020
Abstract

This study investigates herds effect in more than 100 cryptocurrencies during the period from January 2015 to June 2020. The results document a significant evidence of herding behavior in the cryptocurrency market. My findings show that herding asymmetry is present during bullish and bearish regimes of cryptocurrency market, where the herds investing is dominantly visible during extremely bullish percentile regimes of cryptocurrency market. Although the study finds no evidence of correlated trading when cryptocurrency specific fear prevails in the market, yet crypto investors mimic trading decisions of others during the times of COVID-19 except for the period of lockdowns.

Publisher
Elsevier BV
Disciplines
Keywords
  • COVID-19,
  • Herding behavior,
  • Cryptocurrencies,
  • VCRIX,
  • Market fear
Indexed in Scopus
No
Open Access
Yes
Open Access Type
Bronze: This publication is openly available on the publisher’s website but without an open license
https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3740575
Citation Information
Ghulame Rubbaniy, Stathis Polyzos and Syed Kumail Abbas Rizvi. "COVID-19, Lockdowns and Herding Towards Cryptocurrency Market Specific Implied Volatility Index" SSRN Electronic Journal (2020) ISSN: <p><a href="https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/issn/1556-5068" target="_blank">1556-5068</a></p>
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/ghulame-rubbaniy/9/