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ABSTRACT. The majority of crypto-currencies are pseudo-anonymous in a sense that they are traceable through their hashes. Very few crypto-currencies really provide strict anonymity (i.e., un-linkability) for exchanges. This article investigates the link between strictly anonymous crypto-currencies (Moreno (XMR), Dash (DASH), Verge (XVG) and the dynamics of the two most important pseudo-anonymous crypto-currencies (Ether/Bitcoin) between 2015 and 2020. Our empirical analysis found a significant relationship between three of these anonymous crypto-currencies (XMR, DASH and XVG) and Bitcoin/Ether. Through an ARCH and GARCH-based econometric technique, we identify a structural break in all these crypto-currencies’ dynamics implying the need to study two distinct sub-periods (before/after 17 December 2017). Interestingly, the dynamics of these assets behave differently in the two identified regime. The conditional correlations between crypto-currencies are stronger after the structural break (during the decreasing market) than before (increasing trend). These results indicate that, before the structural breaks, anonymous crypto-currencies could have been considered as good assets for diversification purposes but their diversifying properties cannot be observed in decreasing markets (i.e., after the 17Dec 2017). Our study identifies DASH as a key crypto-currency since this digital asset could be involved in the dynamics of Bitcoin and Ether in our two periods of study.
JEL codes: D53; E22; E32; E44; G01; G41

Keywords: Bitcoin; Ether; structural break; strictly anonymous crypto-currencies

How to cite: Schinckus, C., Nguyen, C. P., and Chong, F. H. L. (2021). “Are Bitcoin and Ether Affected by Strictly Anonymous Crypto-Currencies? An Exploratory Study,” Economics, Management, and Financial Markets 16(4): 9–27. doi: 10.22381/emfm16420211.

Received 10 April 2021 • Received in revised form 1 October 2021
Accepted 8 October 2021 • Available online 20 October 2021

Christophe Schinckus
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University of the Fraser Valley, Canada
(corresponding author)
Canh Phuc Nguyen
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University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Felicia Hui Ling Chong
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Taylor’s University, Subang Jaya, Malaysia

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