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The road less travelled: GameFi as a hedge or a safe haven for international indices

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  • Shen, Dehua

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This paper provides the first evidence of GameFi's hedge or safe haven property by including 30 forms of GameFi and 40 international indices. The empirical results mainly show that: (1) at the GameFi-level, GameFi is not a hedge or safe haven for most indices; (2) at the market-level, both the value-weighted and equal-weighted GameFi composite indices demonstrate the potential to serve as safe havens for most international indices.

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  • Bo, Congcong & Shen, Dehua, 2023. "The road less travelled: GameFi as a hedge or a safe haven for international indices," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 57(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:finlet:v:57:y:2023:i:c:s1544612323005755
    DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2023.104203
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