Testing Speculative Price Bubbles For Crypto Money Values : An Application For Bitcoin Abstract

The aim of this study is to determination of the speculative price bubbles for crypto currencies by existence of bitcoin examining. The entity with the highest transaction volume within the crypto currencies is designated as Bitcoin, which is why it is thought that crypto money prices can reflect the data generation process. The values of all cryptocurrencies have recently shown a lot of price fluctuations. The speculative price bubbles can be shown as the cause of this change. If it is not the speculative price increase, it can be the result of the systematic risk increase of the market. The study period was attempted to select the period in which the volatility of Bitcoin asset returns increase. First, the standard Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) test was used to test the stationary. In order to determine speculative price bubbles; GSADF (Phillips, Shi and Yu; 2013) test, which developed for the determination of multiple price bubbles in recursive way, takes into account the extreme right tail structure in the distributions. The purpose is to determine whether the cause of price change is speculative or not