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Bitcoin and Altcoins Price Dependency: Resilience and Portfolio Allocation in COVID-19 Outbreak

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  • Ahmet Faruk Aysan

    (Islamic Finance and Economy Program, College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, 34110 Doha, Qatar)

  • Asad Ul Islam Khan

    (Department of Economics, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ibn Haldun University, 34480 Istanbul, Turkey)

  • Humeyra Topuz

    (Department of Business Administration, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 28001 Madrid, Spain)

Abstract

The main aim of this article is to examine the inter-relationships among the top cryptocurrencies on the crypto stock market in the presence and absence of the COVID-19 pandemic. The nine chosen cryptocurrencies are Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Litecoin, Eos, BitcoinCash, Binance, Stellar, and Tron and their daily closing price data are captured from coinmarketcap over the period from 13 September 2017 to 21 September 2020. All of the cryptocurrencies are integrated of order 1 i.e., I(1) . There is strong evidence of a long-run relationship between Bitcoin and altcoins irrespective of whether it is pre-pandemic or pandemic period. It has also been found that these cryptocurrencies’ prices and their inter-relationship are resilient to the pandemic. It is recommended that when the investors create investment plans and strategies they may highly consider Bitcoin and altcoins jointly as they give sustainability and resilience in the long run against the geopolitical risks and even in the tough time of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  • Ahmet Faruk Aysan & Asad Ul Islam Khan & Humeyra Topuz, 2021. "Bitcoin and Altcoins Price Dependency: Resilience and Portfolio Allocation in COVID-19 Outbreak," Risks, MDPI, vol. 9(4), pages 1-13, April.
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