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IS BITCOIN SAFE HAVEN AGAINST TRADITIONAL FINANCIAL ASSETS? EVIDENCE OF FINANCIAL MARKETS FROM JAPAN AND CHINA

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IS BITCOIN SAFE HAVEN AGAINST TRADITIONAL FINANCIAL ASSETS? EVIDENCE OF FINANCIAL MARKETS FROM JAPAN AND CHINA

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The global and local financial crises, which are repeated every few years, have made it necessary to identify alternative investment instruments that will not be harmed by possible collapses or that will help to overcome this process with the least damage, and that have the characteristics of a safe harbor. Bitcoin is a public digital currency built on a user-to-user network chain, where all transactions made on this chain are recorded. The aim of this study is to use the nonlinear autoregressive models GARCH, GARCH-in-Mean (GARCH-M), GJR-GARCH, and Dynamic Conditional Correlation GARCH (DCC-GARCH) which are nonlinear in variance, in particular for financial markets in China and Japan, where Bitcoin is safe against different investment instruments. We consider daily prices of Bitcoin, gold, USA Dollar with local currency parity as three potential safe haven assets and the stock market indices of China and Japan. We collect data on daily frequency from January 1, 2015, to November 3, 2022. The results of the study examined the market dynamics between Japan and China. It was found that the SSE50 index in China responds to financial shocks more than other instruments, while gold and USD are the safest alternatives against financial shocks for both countries. Bitcoin is the instrument most affected by negative news in Japan, but investors see it as a safe haven after gold for China. When the risk and return relationship is examined, it can be argued that as the risk increases in China, the expected return from BTC/CNY and GOLD/CNY also increases. However, it is seen that the SSE50 Index and the USD/CNY exchange rate do not have the expected relationship between risk and return at a statistically significant level. For Japan, it has been determined that there is a statistically significant and positive relationship between risk and return for the NIKKEI225 Index, BTC/JPY and GOLD/JPY instruments. However, the expected relationship between risk and return in USD/JPY currency parity is not statistically significant.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Bitcoin, Financial Shocks, Risk-Return Relationship, Financial Markets, GARCH Models

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APA
Bulut, E., Fendoğlu, E., & Şimşek, A. İ. (2026). IS BITCOIN SAFE HAVEN AGAINST TRADITIONAL FINANCIAL ASSETS? EVIDENCE OF FINANCIAL MARKETS FROM JAPAN AND CHINA. Fırat Üniversitesi Uluslararası İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Dergisi, 10(1), 45-74. https://doi.org/10.61524/fuuiibfdergi.1886506
AMA
1.Bulut E, Fendoğlu E, Şimşek Aİ. IS BITCOIN SAFE HAVEN AGAINST TRADITIONAL FINANCIAL ASSETS? EVIDENCE OF FINANCIAL MARKETS FROM JAPAN AND CHINA. fuuiibfdergi. 2026;10(1):45-74. doi:10.61524/fuuiibfdergi.1886506
Chicago
Bulut, Emre, Eda Fendoğlu, ve Ahmed İhsan Şimşek. 2026. “IS BITCOIN SAFE HAVEN AGAINST TRADITIONAL FINANCIAL ASSETS? EVIDENCE OF FINANCIAL MARKETS FROM JAPAN AND CHINA”. Fırat Üniversitesi Uluslararası İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Dergisi 10 (1): 45-74. https://doi.org/10.61524/fuuiibfdergi.1886506.
EndNote
Bulut E, Fendoğlu E, Şimşek Aİ (01 Haziran 2026) IS BITCOIN SAFE HAVEN AGAINST TRADITIONAL FINANCIAL ASSETS? EVIDENCE OF FINANCIAL MARKETS FROM JAPAN AND CHINA. Fırat Üniversitesi Uluslararası İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Dergisi 10 1 45–74.
IEEE
[1]E. Bulut, E. Fendoğlu, ve A. İ. Şimşek, “IS BITCOIN SAFE HAVEN AGAINST TRADITIONAL FINANCIAL ASSETS? EVIDENCE OF FINANCIAL MARKETS FROM JAPAN AND CHINA”, fuuiibfdergi, c. 10, sy 1, ss. 45–74, Haz. 2026, doi: 10.61524/fuuiibfdergi.1886506.
ISNAD
Bulut, Emre - Fendoğlu, Eda - Şimşek, Ahmed İhsan. “IS BITCOIN SAFE HAVEN AGAINST TRADITIONAL FINANCIAL ASSETS? EVIDENCE OF FINANCIAL MARKETS FROM JAPAN AND CHINA”. Fırat Üniversitesi Uluslararası İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Dergisi 10/1 (01 Haziran 2026): 45-74. https://doi.org/10.61524/fuuiibfdergi.1886506.
JAMA
1.Bulut E, Fendoğlu E, Şimşek Aİ. IS BITCOIN SAFE HAVEN AGAINST TRADITIONAL FINANCIAL ASSETS? EVIDENCE OF FINANCIAL MARKETS FROM JAPAN AND CHINA. fuuiibfdergi. 2026;10:45–74.
MLA
Bulut, Emre, vd. “IS BITCOIN SAFE HAVEN AGAINST TRADITIONAL FINANCIAL ASSETS? EVIDENCE OF FINANCIAL MARKETS FROM JAPAN AND CHINA”. Fırat Üniversitesi Uluslararası İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Dergisi, c. 10, sy 1, Haziran 2026, ss. 45-74, doi:10.61524/fuuiibfdergi.1886506.
Vancouver
1.Emre Bulut, Eda Fendoğlu, Ahmed İhsan Şimşek. IS BITCOIN SAFE HAVEN AGAINST TRADITIONAL FINANCIAL ASSETS? EVIDENCE OF FINANCIAL MARKETS FROM JAPAN AND CHINA. fuuiibfdergi. 01 Haziran 2026;10(1):45-74. doi:10.61524/fuuiibfdergi.1886506