{"title":"WHAT DRIVES THE BELIEFS IN BITCOIN? – SURVEY RESULTS","authors":"Zuzana Rakovská","doi":"10.31410/itema.2019.241","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":": This paper examines the factors that affect the sentiment towards bitcoin of the given pop ulation - their beliefs about the future development of investors’ interest in bitcoin in two weeks, one month, and one-quarter period ahead. To do so, it employs data from a unique longitudinal survey, which was conducted in six waves during the period from September to December 2018 on a balanced sample of 141 university students. The variety of factors are considered in the study, such as the collec tion of socio-demographic factors, expectations about dynamics of popular currency pairs, the degree of financial knowledge, respondents overconfidence or the technology acceptance factor. Using the or dered probit for panel data, this study found the support for the above mentioned factors at least in the one studied horizon. Moreover, it was shown that respondents evaluate also the past returns of Bitcoin when shaping their beliefs.","PeriodicalId":260018,"journal":{"name":"3rd International Scientific Conference ITEMA Recent Advances in Information Technology Tourism Economics Management and Agriculture","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"3rd International Scientific Conference ITEMA Recent Advances in Information Technology Tourism Economics Management and Agriculture","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.31410/itema.2019.241","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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: This paper examines the factors that affect the sentiment towards bitcoin of the given pop ulation - their beliefs about the future development of investors’ interest in bitcoin in two weeks, one month, and one-quarter period ahead. To do so, it employs data from a unique longitudinal survey, which was conducted in six waves during the period from September to December 2018 on a balanced sample of 141 university students. The variety of factors are considered in the study, such as the collec tion of socio-demographic factors, expectations about dynamics of popular currency pairs, the degree of financial knowledge, respondents overconfidence or the technology acceptance factor. Using the or dered probit for panel data, this study found the support for the above mentioned factors at least in the one studied horizon. Moreover, it was shown that respondents evaluate also the past returns of Bitcoin when shaping their beliefs.
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