What are the main drivers of the bitcoin price? Evidence from wavelet coherence analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Kristoufek, Ladislav ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION THEORY AND AUTOMATION   (Czech Republic)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BITCOIN PRICE INDEX; CHINESE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FINANCIAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; MARKETING; MONEY; SEARCH ENGINE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WAVELET COHERENCE ANALYSIS; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ECONOMIC MODEL; HUMAN; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

COMMERCE; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMIC; TIME FACTORS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 84928818221     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123923     Document Type: Article

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