Common Risk Factors in Cryptocurrency

48 Pages Posted: 28 May 2019 Last revised: 22 Mar 2025

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Yukun Liu

University of Rochester - Simon Business School

Aleh Tsyvinski

Yale University - Cowles Foundation; Yale University

Xi Wu

University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business

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Date Written: May 2019

Abstract

We find that three factors – cryptocurrency market, size, and momentum – capture the cross-sectional expected cryptocurrency returns. We consider a comprehensive list of price- and market-related factors in the stock market, and construct their cryptocurrency counterparts. Nine cryptocurrency factors form successful long-short strategies that generate sizable and statistically significant excess returns. We show that all of these strategies are accounted for by the cryptocurrency three-factor model.

Suggested Citation

Liu, Yukun and Tsyvinski, Aleh and Tsyvinski, Aleh and Wu, Xi, Common Risk Factors in Cryptocurrency (May 2019). NBER Working Paper No. w25882, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3394671

Yukun Liu (Contact Author)

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Aleh Tsyvinski

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Xi Wu

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