The Crypto Cycle and US Monetary Policy

By Natasha X Che, Alexander Copestake, Davide Furceri, Tammaro Terracciano

August 4, 2023

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Natasha X Che, Alexander Copestake, Davide Furceri, and Tammaro Terracciano. The Crypto Cycle and US Monetary Policy, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2023) accessed December 11, 2024

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Summary

We examine fluctuations in crypto markets and their relationships to global equity markets and US monetary policy. We identify a single price component—which we label the “crypto factor”—that explains 80% of variation in crypto prices, and show that its increasing correlation with equity markets coincided with the entry of institutional investors into crypto markets. We also document that, as for equities, US Fed tightening reduces the crypto factor through the risk-taking channel—in contrast to claims that crypto assets provide a hedge against market risk. Finally, we show that a stylized heterogeneous-agent model with time-varying aggregate risk aversion can explain our empirical findings, and highlights possible spillovers from crypto to equity markets if the participation of institutional investors ever became large.

Subject: Blockchain and DLT, Financial cycles, Financial markets, Financial regulation and supervision, Financial sector policy and analysis, Market risk, Stock markets, Technology, Virtual currencies

Keywords: Blockchain and DLT, Crypto factor, Crypto investor, Crypto market, Cryptoassets, Fed tightening, Financial cycles, Global, Market risk, Stock markets, Stock Markets., US Monetary Policy, Virtual currencies

Publication Details

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57
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Working Paper No. 2023/163
Stock No:

WPIEA2023163
ISBN:

9798400245411
ISSN:

1018-5941

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