Estimates of the Influence of EPU on Bitcoin and gold volatility (Eqn 3) 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) | 1.57e-10 | 6.46e-11 | 2.428 | 0.0153** | 0.02394 | 0.00279 | 8.568 | <0.0001*** |
| EPU | −1.42e-12 | 5.11e-13 | −2.778 | 0.0055*** | −6.37e-5 | 2.29e-5 | −2.772 | 0.0056*** | |
| 0.05 | (Intercept) | 0.17211 | 0.01068 | 16.11 | <0.0001*** | 0.06521 | 0.00384 | 16.98 | <0.0001*** |
| EPU | −0.00101 | 8.44e-5 | −11.91 | <0.0001*** | −5.53e-5 | 3.16e-5 | −1.752 | 0.0798* | |
| 0.1 | (Intercept) | 0.21691 | 0.00894 | 24.28 | <0.0001*** | 0.07684 | 0.00265 | 29.04 | <0.0001*** |
| EPU | −0.00092 | 7.06e-5 | −13.03 | <0.0001*** | −2.12e-5 | 2.177e-5 | −0.9735 | 0.3304 | |
| 0.25 | (Intercept) | 0.28930 | 0.01266 | 22.85 | <0.0001*** | 0.09792 | 0.00277 | 35.33 | <0.0001*** |
| EPU | −0.00032 | 0.00010 | −3.156 | 0.0016*** | 9.60e-6 | 2.28e-5 | 0.4213 | 0.6736 | |
| 0.75 | (Intercept) | 0.80611 | 0.05008 | 16.10 | <0.0001*** | 0.17028 | 0.00535 | 31.85 | <0.0001*** |
| EPU | 0.00140 | 0.00040 | 3.527 | 0.0004*** | 0.00019 | 4.39e-5 | 4.402 | <0.0001*** | |
| 0.9 | (Intercept) | 1.40261 | 0.09933 | 14.12 | <0.0001*** | 0.22064 | 0.01115 | 19.79 | <0.0001*** |
| EPU | 0.00252 | 0.00079 | 3.205 | 0.0014*** | 0.00044 | 9.17e-5 | 4.807 | <0.0001*** | |
| 0.95 | (Intercept) | 1.65342 | 0.25442 | 6.499 | <0.0001*** | 0.26542 | 0.01319 | 20.12 | <0.0001*** |
| EPU | 0.01078 | 0.00201 | 5.362 | <0.0001*** | 0.00052 | 0.00011 | 4.824 | <0.0001*** | |
| 0.99 | (Intercept) | 5.10445 | 1.74611 | 2.923 | 0.0035*** | 0.43367 | 0.04388 | 9.883 | <0.0001*** |
| EPU | 0.01770 | 0.01380 | 1.283 | 0.1998 | 0.00074 | 0.00036 | 2.043 | 0.0412** | |
| Coefficient | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Value | Standard error | Pr (>| | Value | Standard error | Pr (>| | ||||
| 0.01 | (Intercept) | ||||||||
| EPU | |||||||||
| 0.05 | (Intercept) | ||||||||
| EPU | |||||||||
| 0.1 | (Intercept) | 0.07684 | 0.00265 | 29.04 | <0.0001*** | ||||
| EPU | −2.12e-5 | 2.177e-5 | −0.9735 | 0.3304 | |||||
| 0.25 | (Intercept) | 0.09792 | 0.00277 | 35.33 | <0.0001*** | ||||
| EPU | 9.60e-6 | 2.28e-5 | 0.4213 | 0.6736 | |||||
| 0.75 | (Intercept) | ||||||||
| EPU | |||||||||
| 0.9 | (Intercept) | ||||||||
| EPU | |||||||||
| 0.95 | (Intercept) | ||||||||
| EPU | |||||||||
| 0.99 | (Intercept) | 5.10445 | 1.74611 | 2.923 | 0.0035*** | ||||
| EPU | 0.01770 | 0.01380 | 1.283 | 0.1998 | |||||
Note(s): ***, ** and * indicates the significance at 1%, 5% and 10% levels, respectively