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Table 3 The definition of weak/strong safe-haven properties

From: Global uncertainty and potential shelters: gold, bitcoin, and currencies as weak and strong safe havens for main world stock markets

No

Name of the property

Definition

1

Strong safe haven

The asset is a strong safe haven when the interval of plus/minus two posterior standard deviations from the posterior mean of conditional correlation with the market index is below zero in times of market distress

2

Weak safe haven

The asset is a weak safe haven when the interval of plus/minus two posterior standard deviations from the posterior mean of conditional correlation with the market index includes zero in times of market distress

  1. Source: own study