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Examining interconnectedness between media attention and cryptocurrency markets: A transfer entropy story

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This note aims at using transfer entropy as a broader concept of causality than Granger’s approach to measure the direction and the intensity of spillovers between five major cryptocurrencies. For this purpose, we use two channels of transmission: price movements and Google-based investor attention. Our results shed light on the dominance of only a few cryptocurrencies, in their influences on price movements as well as on media attention in the other cryptocurrencies.

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  • Neto, David, 2022. "Examining interconnectedness between media attention and cryptocurrency markets: A transfer entropy story," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 214(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:214:y:2022:i:c:s0165176522001033
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110460
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    Keywords

    Cryptocurrency; Media attention; Financial contagion; Transfer entropy;
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    • G1 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets
    • G14 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies; Insider Trading
    • C38 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Classification Methdos; Cluster Analysis; Principal Components; Factor Analysis

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