{"title":"ARE CRYPTOCURRENCIES UNBIASED? THE CASE OF BITCOIN IN BRAZIL","authors":"Joao Valente Filho, Denis Forte, E. Júnior","doi":"10.33965/ama2020_202003c019","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Cryptocurrencies are nowadays one of the most important alternative investment markets and therefore have been in spot for regulatory purposes. One of the main characteristics is to be easy traded all over the world without governmental interference and without incurring in conversions costs whatsoever. A cryptocurrency like Bitcoin, the most renown and liquid, is traded at the same time in many different particular markets denominated exchanges. According to Financial theory, assets with these characteristics would be priced seemingly (considering transactions costs) in any exchange simultaneously, thanks to international arbitrage among agents. Any exception should be a regulator concern. Results of this study indicates that prices in different exchanges in USD, EUR and BRL are cointegrated and they have a balanced price response up to four lags of 15 minutes, making some predictability possible. A yellow light for regulators, since Bitcoin prices would not be neutral in their expectations but would have a pattern, raising concerns on market efficiency, regulations and practices.","PeriodicalId":263215,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Management Advances in the 21st Century 2020","volume":"63 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Management Advances in the 21st Century 2020","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.33965/ama2020_202003c019","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Cryptocurrencies are nowadays one of the most important alternative investment markets and therefore have been in spot for regulatory purposes. One of the main characteristics is to be easy traded all over the world without governmental interference and without incurring in conversions costs whatsoever. A cryptocurrency like Bitcoin, the most renown and liquid, is traded at the same time in many different particular markets denominated exchanges. According to Financial theory, assets with these characteristics would be priced seemingly (considering transactions costs) in any exchange simultaneously, thanks to international arbitrage among agents. Any exception should be a regulator concern. Results of this study indicates that prices in different exchanges in USD, EUR and BRL are cointegrated and they have a balanced price response up to four lags of 15 minutes, making some predictability possible. A yellow light for regulators, since Bitcoin prices would not be neutral in their expectations but would have a pattern, raising concerns on market efficiency, regulations and practices.