COVID-19 pandemic and the safe haven property of Bitcoin
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Bitcoin; Safe haven; COVID-19; Uncertainty;All these keywords.
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- E60 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - General
- G1 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets
- I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
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