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
