Hedge and safe haven properties during COVID-19: Evidence from Bitcoin and gold

R Chemkha, A BenSaïda, A Ghorbel… - The Quarterly Review of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented human and health crisis. The
measures taken to contain the damage caused a global economic slowdown. Investors face …

Is Bitcoin a hedge, a safe haven or a diversifier for oil price movements? A comparison with gold

R Selmi, W Mensi, S Hammoudeh, J Bouoiyour - Energy Economics, 2018 - Elsevier
This study assesses the roles of Bitcoin as a hedge, a safe haven and/or a diversifier against
extreme oil price movements, in comparison to the corresponding roles of gold. We use a …

Does Bitcoin hedge global uncertainty? Evidence from wavelet-based quantile-in-quantile regressions

E Bouri, R Gupta, AK Tiwari, D Roubaud - Finance Research Letters, 2017 - Elsevier
We examine whether Bitcoin can hedge global uncertainty, measured by the first principal
component of the VIXs of 14 developed and developing equity markets. After decomposing …

Cryptocurrencies and stock market indices. Are they related?

LA Gil-Alana, EJA Abakah, MFR Rojo - Research in International Business …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, we investigate the stochastic properties of six major cryptocurrencies and their
bilateral linkages with six stock market indices using fractional integration techniques. From …

Bitcoin as a safe haven: Is it even worth considering?

LA Smales - Finance Research Letters, 2019 - Elsevier
Research in cryptofinance has continued to consider whether Bitcoin possesses a safe
haven property as traditionally defined by its correlation with other assets during times of …

The role of bitcoin in well diversified portfolios: A comparative global study

A Kajtazi, A Moro - International Review of Financial Analysis, 2019 - Elsevier
This research explores the effects of adding bitcoin to an optimal portfolio (naïve, long-only,
semi-constrained with and without bitcoin shorting) by relying on the mean-CVaR approach …

Bitcoin for energy commodities before and after the December 2013 crash: diversifier, hedge or safe haven?

E Bouri, N Jalkh, P Molnár, D Roubaud - Applied Economics, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
We study the relationship between Bitcoin and commodities by assessing the ability of
Bitcoin to act as a diversifier, hedge, or safe haven against daily movements in commodities …

Should investors include bitcoin in their portfolios? A portfolio theory approach

E Platanakis, A Urquhart - The British accounting review, 2020 - Elsevier
Many papers in recent years have examined the benefits of adding alternative assets to
traditional portfolios containing stocks and bonds. Bitcoin has emerged as a new alternative …

Should investors include green bonds in their portfolios? Evidence for the USA and Europe

Y Han, J Li - International review of financial analysis, 2022 - Elsevier
The green bond market has seen a rapid growth world widely in recent years. This paper
explores the role of green bonds in asset allocation using the dynamic R-vine copula-based …

Can Bitcoin be a diversifier, hedge or safe haven tool?

A Stensås, MF Nygaard, K Kyaw… - Cogent Economics & …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This paper investigates whether Bitcoin acts as a diversifier, hedge or safe haven tool for
investors in major developed and developing markets, as well as for commodities. This …