Bitcoin – a Currency or an Asset?

Bitcoin is an asset or currency?

Can bitcoin be the new gold?

1. Introduction:

• Declare the research question

• Bitcoin is an asset or currency?

• Can bitcoin be the new gold?

• Introduce the background of your research

• Discuss motivation of your study

• Summarise your findings

• Contribution to the literature*

2. Critical literature review:

• Theoretical arguments

• Empirical evidences from other studies

• How to categorize different point of views on the similar study topic?

• Hypotheses settings

3. Data and Methodology (Dickey-Fuller test, Durbin-Watson test, linear regression, correlation…)

• Data sources and description of a sample

• Variables definition

• Numerical pattern reveals from the statistics?

• Methodology, e.g. econometric models and why adopting this particular method?

4. Analysis and empirical results

• Interpret coefficient estimate: sign, magnitude. 

satisfy the expectation?

• Responses to the hypotheses settings?

Consistent with other studies? If not, what could explain the difference?

• Implications / Policy suggestion?

5. Conclusion