IASSI-Quarterly
  • Year: 2020
  • Volume: 39
  • Issue: 2

Price volatility of bitcoins in India - an empirical analysis of bitcoin prices

  • Author:
  • Pournima Dhume1, Maura Viegas2
  • Total Page Count: 15
  • Page Number: 317 to 331

1Assistant Professor in Commerce, Programme Director [MBA (Financial Services)], Goa Business School, Goa University, Goa, Email: pournima.dhume@Unigoa.ac.in

2M. Com. Student of Goa Business School, Goa University, Goa, Email: mauraviegas29@gmail.com

Online published on 24 September, 2020.

Abstract

Cryptography is a type of computer technology that is used for ensuring security, hiding information, and more. Bitcoins is the most recognized cryptocurrency. It is a person to person virtual currency which is used for online transactions. In this paper, an attempt has been made to analyses the price volatility of bitcoins. Further, a detailed content analysis has been presented in this paper. This study considers a study period of 8 and half years ranging from 19th June 2010 to 31st December 2018. Bitcoins prices were considered as variable to study the volatility of Bitcoins prices. Unit Root analysis is employed to check the Stationarity of the data series of bitcoins prices. ARCH Test, Volatility Clustering, ARCH, GARCH, TARCH and EGARCH have been used to analyze the price volatility. It was found that good news has more effect on the volatility of Bitcoins price returns than the bad news.

Keywords

Bitcoins, Cryptocurrency, Price, Volatility, Block chain Technology, GARCH, TGARCH