The asymmetric effect of bitcoin on altcoins: evidence from the nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) model

Ender Demir; Serdar  Simonyan; Conrado-Diego  García-Gómez; Marco Lau Chi Keung

doi:10.1016/j.frl.2020.101754

The asymmetric effect of bitcoin on altcoins: evidence from the nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) model

Ender Demir, Serdar Simonyan, Conrado-Diego García-Gómez, Marco Lau Chi Keung

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This paper examines the asymmetric effect of Bitcoin on three altcoins, namely Ethereum (ETH), Ripple (XRP) and Litecoin (LTC) by using the Nonlinear Autoregressive Distributed Lag (NARDL) model for the period July 2015 to March 2019. We provide evidence on the asymmetric impact of Bitcoin on altcoins both in the short-run and in the long-run. In the short-run, a decrease in Bitcoin price has greater effect than an increase on the prices of altcoins. This asymmetry is more frequent after the 2017 cryptocurrency price crash.

Original language	English
Article number	101754
Number of pages	6
Journal	Finance Research Letters
Volume	40
Early online date	5 Sept 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2020.101754
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2021

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