Price dispersion in bitcoin exchanges

C-Tier
Journal: Economics Letters
Year: 2020
Volume: 194
Issue: C

Authors (2)

Score contribution per author:

0.503 = (α=2.01 / 2 authors) × 0.5x C-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

Bitcoin is traded in a number of exchanges, and there is a large and time-varying price dispersion among them. We identify the sources of price dispersion using a standard time-varying vector autoregression model with stochastic volatility, and we find that shocks to transaction fees and bitcoin price growth explain on average 20%, and sometimes more than 60%, of the variation of price dispersion.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:ecolet:v:194:y:2020:i:c:s0165176520302391
Journal Field
General
Author Count
2
Added to Database
2026-01-29