Abstract

Over the last few years, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have attracted the interest of many investors, practitioners and researchers. However, little attention has been paid to the predictability of their risk measures. In this paper, we compare the predictability of the one-step-ahead volatility and Value-at-Risk of Bitcoin using several volatility models. We also include procedures that take into account the presence of outliers and estimate the volatility and Value-at-Risk in a robust fashion. Our results show that robust procedures outperform the non-robust ones when forecasting the volatility and estimating the Value-at-Risk. These results suggest that the presence of outliers play an important role in the modelling and forecasting of Bitcoin risk measures.

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