Highlights
We utilize the COVID-19 pandemic announcement as the setting to test the safe-haven properties of Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Bitcoin and Ethereum exhibit short-term safe-haven properties.
Ethereum is potentially a better safe-haven than Bitcoin.
However, both cryptocurrencies exhibit high volatilities.
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