The digital traces of bubbles: Feedback cycles between socio-economic signals in the Bitcoin economy

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 11, Issue 99, 2014, Pages

  Garcia, David ^a   Tessone, Claudio J ^a   Mavrodiev, Pavlin ^a   Perony, Nicolas ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bitcoin; Bubbles; Social interactions; Socio economic signals

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); COSTS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ECONOMICS; FEEDBACK; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BITCOIN; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; ONLINE SOCIAL MEDIAS; POSITIVE FEEDBACK LOOP; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SOCIO-ECONOMICS; VECTOR AUTOREGRESSIONS; WORD-OF-MOUTH COMMUNICATION;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ARTICLE; BITCOIN ECONOMY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; INFORMATION; INTERNET; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIOECONOMICS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ECONOMIC MODEL; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRENDS;

COMMERCE; COMMUNICATION; ECONOMICS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MODELS, ECONOMIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84991997082     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2014.0623     Document Type: Article

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