Tail-risk spillovers in cryptocurrency markets

This paper analyzes the tail-risk interdependence among 23 cryptocurrencies and identifies the systemically important cryptocurrencies using the TENET approach proposed by Fan et al. (2018) and finds that (i) significant risk spillover effect exists; (ii) the degree of the total connectedness of all the sampled cryptocurrencies increases steadily over time; (iii) Bitcoin is the largest systemic risk receiver; (iv) Ethereum is the largest systemic risk emitter.