Estimates of the Influence of EPU on Bitcoin and gold volatility (Eqn 2) with the quantile regression model for the period 19 July 2010–11 April 2019
| Coefficient | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Value | Standard error | t value | Pr (>| t |) | Value | Standard error | t value | Pr (>| t |) | ||
| 0.01 | (Intercept) | 2.24e-12 | 0.00117 | 1.92e-9 | 1.000 | 0.00209 | 0.00061 | 3.42449 | 0.00063*** |
| EPU | 0.00000 | 9.21e-6 | −2.19e-9 | 1.000 | −0.00001 | 0.00000 | −1.28578 | 0.19865 | |
| 0.05 | (Intercept) | 0.01500 | 0.00085 | 17.6430 | <0.0001*** | 0.00568 | 0.00035 | 16.40935 | <0.0001*** |
| EPU | −0.00009 | 0.00001 | −16.1776 | <0.0001*** | 0.00000 | 0.00000 | −1.08193 | 0.27940 | |
| 0.1 | (Intercept) | 0.01889 | 0.00069 | 27.3523 | <0.0001*** | 0.00670 | 0.00022 | 29.99340 | <0.0001*** |
| EPU | −0.00008 | 0.00001 | −13.1024 | <0.0001*** | 0.00000 | 0.00000 | −0.89404 | 0.37139 | |
| 0.25 | (Intercept) | 0.02509 | 0.00093 | 26.9404 | <0.0001*** | 0.00853 | 0.00028 | 30.25833 | <0.0001*** |
| EPU | −0.00002 | 0.00001 | −2.9173 | 0.0036*** | 0.00000 | 0.00000 | 0.29503 | 0.76800 | |
| 0.75 | (Intercept) | 0.07021 | 0.00420 | 16.7169 | <0.0001*** | 0.01484 | 0.00068 | 21.86400 | <0.0001*** |
| EPU | 0.00012 | 0.00004 | 3.1697 | 0.0015*** | 0.00002 | 0.00001 | 2.45110 | 0.01432** | |
| 0.9 | (Intercept) | 0.11843 | 0.01412 | 8.3863 | <0.0001*** | 0.01923 | 0.00088 | 21.76846 | <0.0001*** |
| EPU | 0.00027 | 0.00015 | 1.7677 | 0.0772* | 0.00004 | 0.00001 | 4.36335 | <0.0001*** | |
| 0.95 | (Intercept) | 0.14169 | 0.02310 | 6.1349 | <0.0001*** | 0.02313 | 0.00107 | 21.64825 | <0.0001*** |
| EPU | 0.00097 | 0.00027 | 3.6582 | 0.0003*** | 0.00005 | 0.00001 | 4.09126 | <0.0001*** | |
| 0.99 | (Intercept) | 0.30609 | 0.07566 | 4.0456 | <0.0001*** | 0.03779 | 0.00629 | 6.00428 | <0.0001*** |
| EPU | 0.00136 | 0.00086 | 1.5894 | 0.1121 | 0.00006 | 0.00005 | 1.20897 | 0.22680 | |
| Coefficient | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Value | Standard error | Pr (>| | Value | Standard error | Pr (>| | ||||
| 0.01 | (Intercept) | 2.24e-12 | 0.00117 | 1.92e-9 | 1.000 | 0.00209 | 0.00061 | 3.42449 | 0.00063*** |
| EPU | 0.00000 | 9.21e-6 | −2.19e-9 | 1.000 | −0.00001 | 0.00000 | −1.28578 | 0.19865 | |
| 0.05 | (Intercept) | 0.00568 | 0.00035 | 16.40935 | <0.0001*** | ||||
| EPU | 0.00000 | 0.00000 | −1.08193 | 0.27940 | |||||
| 0.1 | (Intercept) | 0.00670 | 0.00022 | 29.99340 | <0.0001*** | ||||
| EPU | 0.00000 | 0.00000 | −0.89404 | 0.37139 | |||||
| 0.25 | (Intercept) | 0.00853 | 0.00028 | 30.25833 | <0.0001*** | ||||
| EPU | 0.00000 | 0.00000 | 0.29503 | 0.76800 | |||||
| 0.75 | (Intercept) | ||||||||
| EPU | |||||||||
| 0.9 | (Intercept) | ||||||||
| EPU | |||||||||
| 0.95 | (Intercept) | ||||||||
| EPU | |||||||||
| 0.99 | (Intercept) | 0.30609 | 0.07566 | 4.0456 | <0.0001*** | 0.03779 | 0.00629 | 6.00428 | <0.0001*** |
| EPU | 0.00136 | 0.00086 | 1.5894 | 0.1121 | 0.00006 | 0.00005 | 1.20897 | 0.22680 | |
Note(s): ***, ** and * indicates the significance at 1%, 5% and 10% levels, respectively