2 papers
q-fin.ST2025
HODL Strategy or Fantasy? 480 Million Crypto Market Simulations and the Macro-Sentiment Effect
Weikang Zhang, Alison Watts
Crypto enthusiasts claim that buying and holding crypto assets yields high returns, often citing Bitcoin's past performance to promote other tokens and fuel fear of missing out. Ho…
econ.GN2025
Borrowing on Belief? Consumer Confidence and U.S. Credit -- A VECM Study
Samiha Tariq, Weikang Zhang
This study explores the interdependent relationship between consumer credit and consumer confidence in the United States using monthly data from January 1978 to August 2024. Utiliz…