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Finnish Study Detects Lottery-Like Behavior in Cryptocurrency Market

Michelle Kellett by Michelle Kellett
April 1, 2021
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Finnish Study Detects Lottery-Like Behavior in Cryptocurrency Market

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Recent research from the University of Vaasa and the University of Jyväskyla shows that speculation and lottery-like behavior is a fundamental factor for the pricing of cryptocurrencies. Speculation could explain the enormous increase in the market capitalizations of cryptocurrencies.

Nowadays, more than 8000 cryptocurrencies have been launched. Unlike traditional assets like stocks, research has shown that investments in cryptocurrencies are associated with a considerably higher uncertainty level. The price of Bitcoin, which is the first traded cryptocurrency, increased from $7,200.17 to $29,374.15 from January 1, 2020, to January 1, 2021 period corresponding to a return of more than 300 percent in one year.

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Interestingly, the sharp increase in the prices for cryptocurrencies happens in a period where the uncertainty in the market for traditional currencies has risen due to the enormous amounts of money that governments worldwide have decided to supply in an attempt to help economies that are on the edge of collapsing due to the ongoing worldwide COVID-19 crisis. Does the question arise what the driving forces for pricing cryptocurrencies are?

A recently published research article from Klaus Grobys, University of Vaasa and Juha Junttila, the University of Jyväskylä in the well-known Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money explores this current issue.

In their study, the researchers examined the role of speculative behavior in cryptocurrency markets: lottery-like demand. Their study makes use of a set of 20 cryptocurrencies to implement the analysis of the so-called MAX-effect over the January 2016-December 2019 period. These cryptocurrencies exhibited the highest market capitalizations. Their findings indicate that the portfolio of cryptocurrencies that exhibited the lowest daily log-return in the week preceding portfolio formation generates, on average, significantly higher returns than the portfolio of cryptocurrencies that exhibited the highest daily log-return in the week preceding portfolio formation. However, it is important to note that this result is based on portfolio analysis.

The authors also propose a new statistical methodology to compute risk-adjust the payoffs based on block bootstraps using different block lengths. They show that their new statistical methodology has some benefits because it ensures both (i) latent regimes in the first or second moment in that data generating process are preserved, and (ii) valuable information in the data is not lost.

Moreover, the authors explore the transition probabilities, which answers how likely it is that a single cryptocurrency will exhibit an extreme return in the time period that follows the portfolio formation. In this regard, their findings indicate that cryptocurrencies that have experienced extreme positive returns in the past are more likely to generate extreme positive returns in the future than generating extreme negative returns, which in turn implies that investors’ expectations appear to be rational.

The authors argue that their findings are also interesting from a theoretical point of view. They suggest that similar behavioral mechanisms of underlying investor behavior observed for stock markets are present even in digital financial markets.

– Earlier studies have shown that short-term return reversal and size are priced in the cross-section of expected cryptocurrency returns. Another recent stream of research has shown that 50% of Bitcoin turnover is associated with criminal activities. Our study is the first that demonstrates that lottery-like behavior is also an important driving force that plays a role in pricing cryptocurrencies, says Dr. Klaus Grobys.

– Lottery-like behavior might actually explain part of the very recently observed rocket-wise rising valuation of some segments of cryptocurrency markets, too, emphasizes Professor Juha Junttila.

– A good example of this kind of betting behavior is the case of the Wallstreetbets forum available from the social media site Reddit. There, the sudden increase in the number of micro-level investors investing in some individual stocks has now caused a huge increase in the valuation of these stocks, and the fundamental pricing factors (like the expected future economic performance of the firm in question) have lost their role in the pricing behavior, at least for a short run. In cryptocurrency markets, this kind of behavior has been actually observed, too, so the MAX behavior in cryptocurrency markets can actually also be a reflection of these kinds of activities at the micro investor level. Obviously, our current results deserve much more scrutiny soon, says Junttila.

Michelle Kellett

Michelle Kellett

Deputy Editor, Investing and Corporate News

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