Klein, Niklas Konstantin ; Lattermann, Fritz ; Schiereck, Dirk (2023)
Investment in Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) - The Return of Ethereum Secondary Market NFT Sales.
In: Journal of Asset Management, 24
doi: 10.1057/s41260-023-00316-1
Article, Bibliographie
Abstract
The increasing attention to non-fungible tokens (NFTs) since 2021, and many reports of remarkable returns by traders of NFTs raise the question of the actual returns in the whole NFT market. We examine the returns of NFT resales using data of 2.12 million secondary market NFT trades on Ethereum’s five largest marketplaces starting in June 2017 until December 2021 at the individual transaction level and trader level and control for transaction costs by implementing a linear regression model and nonparametric tests. We find that the majority of resales are in profit and a high concentration of profits at the trader level, with the top 10% of traders accounting for the majority of profits, and we identify differences in profits for the analyzed NFT categories. Our results show that experienced investors systematically outperform inexperienced investors, indicating information inefficiency in the NFT market, while we do not find clear evidence for the underperformance of more expensive NFTs compared to less expensive ones. Additionally, we find indications of the importance of pump-and-dump schemes on the level of returns.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Erschienen: | 2023 |
| Creators: | Klein, Niklas Konstantin ; Lattermann, Fritz ; Schiereck, Dirk |
| Type of entry: | Bibliographie |
| Title: | Investment in Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) - The Return of Ethereum Secondary Market NFT Sales |
| Language: | English |
| Date: | 26 May 2023 |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Asset Management |
| Volume of the journal: | 24 |
| DOI: | 10.1057/s41260-023-00316-1 |
| Abstract: | The increasing attention to non-fungible tokens (NFTs) since 2021, and many reports of remarkable returns by traders of NFTs raise the question of the actual returns in the whole NFT market. We examine the returns of NFT resales using data of 2.12 million secondary market NFT trades on Ethereum’s five largest marketplaces starting in June 2017 until December 2021 at the individual transaction level and trader level and control for transaction costs by implementing a linear regression model and nonparametric tests. We find that the majority of resales are in profit and a high concentration of profits at the trader level, with the top 10% of traders accounting for the majority of profits, and we identify differences in profits for the analyzed NFT categories. Our results show that experienced investors systematically outperform inexperienced investors, indicating information inefficiency in the NFT market, while we do not find clear evidence for the underperformance of more expensive NFTs compared to less expensive ones. Additionally, we find indications of the importance of pump-and-dump schemes on the level of returns. |
| Divisions: | 01 Department of Law and Economics 01 Department of Law and Economics > Betriebswirtschaftliche Fachgebiete 01 Department of Law and Economics > Betriebswirtschaftliche Fachgebiete > Corporate finance |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jan 2024 10:24 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Jan 2024 10:24 |
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