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Title: COVID-19 Effects on the Relationship between Cryptocurrencies: Can It Be Contagion? Insights from Econophysics Approaches
Authors: Almeida, Do
Dionisio, Andreia
Vieira, Isabel
Ferreira, Paulo
Keywords: contagion
cryptocurrencies
integration
mutual information
transfer entropy
Issue Date: 2023
Publisher: MDPI
Citation: Almeida, D., Dionísio, A., Vieira, I, Ferreira, P. “COVID-19 Effects on the Relationship Between Cryptocurrencies: can it be Contagion? Insights from Econophysics Approaches”., Entropy, 25, 98. https://doi.org/10.3390/e25010098
Abstract: Cryptocurrencies are relatively new and innovative financial assets. They are a topic of interest to investors and academics due to their distinctive features. Whether financial or not, extraordinary events are one of the biggest challenges facing financial markets. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, considered by some authors a “black swan”, is one of these events. In this study, we assess integration and contagion in the cryptocurrency market in the COVID-19 pandemic context, using two entropy-based measures: mutual information and transfer entropy. Both methodologies reveal that cryptocurrencies exhibit mixed levels of integration before and after the onset of the pandemic. Cryptocurrencies displaying higher integration before the event experienced a decline in such link after the world became aware of the first cases of pneumonia in Wuhan city. In what concerns contagion, mutual information provided evidence of its presence solely for the Huobi Token, and the transfer entropy analysis pointed out Tether and Huobi Token as its main source. As both analyses indicate no contagion from the pandemic turmoil to these financial assets, cryptocurrencies may be good investment options in case of real global shocks, such as the one provoked by the COVID-19 outbreak.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/35621
Type: article
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