Paper Number
1565
Paper Type
Short
Description
In this paper, we investigate the impact of the absence of trading bots on human traders’ investment returns. Using comprehensive data set obtained from a large cryptocurrency exchange platform, we find that trading bots play a market-making role, and they boost human traders’ investment returns. We use the natural experiment setting that transforms a heterogenous market co-created with trading bots and human traders into a human-only financial market for empirical design. This paper extends the traditional investment decision under uncertainty by considering human attitudes toward algorithms while providing significant contributions to policymakers and regulators by providing empirical evidence on trading bots.
Recommended Citation
cho, Kanghyun; Nam, Kihwan; and Jung, JaeHwuen, "Blessing or Curse: Impact of Algorithmic Trading Bots Invasion of the Cryptocurrency Market" (2022). ICIS 2022 Proceedings. 9.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2022/blockchain/blockchain/9
Blessing or Curse: Impact of Algorithmic Trading Bots Invasion of the Cryptocurrency Market
In this paper, we investigate the impact of the absence of trading bots on human traders’ investment returns. Using comprehensive data set obtained from a large cryptocurrency exchange platform, we find that trading bots play a market-making role, and they boost human traders’ investment returns. We use the natural experiment setting that transforms a heterogenous market co-created with trading bots and human traders into a human-only financial market for empirical design. This paper extends the traditional investment decision under uncertainty by considering human attitudes toward algorithms while providing significant contributions to policymakers and regulators by providing empirical evidence on trading bots.
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