Bitcoin: competitor or complement to gold?
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- Jamal Bouoiyour & Refk Selmi & Mark E Wohar, 2019. "Bitcoin: competitor or complement to gold?," Post-Print hal-01994187, HAL.
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Bitcoin; gold; testing for complementarity and substitution; Markov-switching copula model.;All these keywords.
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- F3 - International Economics - - International Finance
- G1 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets
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