Safe Haven Assets During the COVID-19 Pandemic: a study of safe haven aspects of gold and Bitcoin in U.S. financial markets
2022 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
This paper explores the possibility of gold and Bitcoin acting as safe haven investments during the Corona pandemic. To answer the research question the authors use OLS-, GARCH-, and TGARCH-models. The S&P 500 stock- and S&P U.S. Aggregate bond-indexes are used as a measure of the performance on U.S. stock- and bond-market. Safe haven assets have a negative beta during turbulent times and therefore the period of 2020-01-01 to 2022-03-31 will be analyzed. A period of five years leading up to the pandemic as well as the turbulent time period will be used as an average to enable comparison between regular and trying times. The results conclude that neither Bitcoin nor gold can be viewed as safe haven assets. However, it is found that both assets can work as diversifiers in the two markets.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2022. , p. 27
Keywords [en]
TGARCH, GARCH, ARCH-LM, COVID-19, Gold, Bitcoin, Safe Haven, Hedge, Diversifier
National Category
Economics and Business
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-113669OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-113669DiVA, id: diva2:1666036
Subject / course
Business Administration - Management Accounting
Educational program
Business Administration and Economics Programme, 240 credits
Supervisors
Examiners
2022-06-212022-06-082022-06-21Bibliographically approved