Liu, Yukun.

Common Risk Factors in Cryptocurrency / Yukun Liu, Aleh Tsyvinski, Xi Wu. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2019. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w25882 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w25882. .

May 2019.

We find that three factors - cryptocurrency market, size, and momentum - capture the cross-sectional expected cryptocurrency returns. We consider a comprehensive list of price- and market-related factors in the stock market, and construct their cryptocurrency counterparts. Nine cryptocurrency factors form successful long-short strategies that generate sizable and statistically significant excess returns. We show that all of these strategies are accounted for by the cryptocurrency three-factor model.




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