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Equilibrium bitcoin pricing

We offer an equilibrium model of cryptocurrency pricing and confront it to new data on bitcoin transactional benefits and costs. The model emphasises that the fundamental value of the cryptocurrency is the stream of net transactional benefits it will provide, which depend on its future prices. The link between future and present prices implies that returns can exhibit large volatility, unrelated to fundamentals. We construct an index measuring the ease with which bitcoins can be used to purchase goods and services, and we also measure costs incurred by bitcoin owners. Consistent with the model, estimated transactional net benefits explain a statistically signicant fraction of bitcoin returns.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: EconPol Working Paper ; No. 48

Classification
Wirtschaft
Subject
Virtuelle Währung
Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse
Gleichgewichtsmodell

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Biais, Bruno
Bisière, Christophe
Bouvard, Matthieu
Casamatta, Catherine
Menkveld, Albert J.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
(where)
Munich
(when)
2020

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Biais, Bruno
  • Bisière, Christophe
  • Bouvard, Matthieu
  • Casamatta, Catherine
  • Menkveld, Albert J.
  • ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich

Time of origin

  • 2020

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