Table I Descriptive statistics of the...

Table I

Descriptive statistics of the variables from the period 19 July 2010 – 11 April 2019

	EPU	$R_{Bit}$	$V_{1, B i t}$	$V_{2,Bit}$	$R_{Gold}$	$V_{1,Gold}$	$V_{2,Gold}$
Mean	108.530	0.0063	0.0714	0.8101	0.0001	0.0137	0.1572
Median	92.1700	0.0000	0.0426	0.4883	0.0007	0.0118	0.1350
Minimum	3.3200	−0.5721	0.0000	0.0000	−0.0954	0.0000	0.0000
Maximum	586.5500	3.3675	2.0000	12.625	0.0529	0.1127	1.2949
Standard deviation	65.0810	0.0919	0.1041	1.0917	0.0092	0.0084	0.0959
CV	0.5997	14.7010	1.4591	1.3477	116.94	0.6103	0.6104
Asymmetry	1.7127	16.9470	6.8572	4.4549	−0.7605	2.8623	2.8652
Kurtosis excess	4.9469	579.6600	88.0270	29.173	9.8983	17.386	17.427

	EPU	$R_{Bit}$	$V_{1, B i t}$	$V_{2,Bit}$	$R_{Gold}$	$V_{1,Gold}$	$V_{2,Gold}$
Mean	108.530	0.0063	0.0714	0.8101	0.0001	0.0137	0.1572
Median	92.1700	0.0000	0.0426	0.4883	0.0007	0.0118	0.1350
Minimum	3.3200	−0.5721	0.0000	0.0000	−0.0954	0.0000	0.0000
Maximum	586.5500	3.3675	2.0000	12.625	0.0529	0.1127	1.2949
Standard deviation	65.0810	0.0919	0.1041	1.0917	0.0092	0.0084	0.0959
CV	0.5997	14.7010	1.4591	1.3477	116.94	0.6103	0.6104
Asymmetry	1.7127	16.9470	6.8572	4.4549	−0.7605	2.8623	2.8652
Kurtosis excess	4.9469	579.6600	88.0270	29.173	9.8983	17.386	17.427