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When is record-keeping better arranged through a blockchain than through a traditional centralized intermediary? The … out a blockchain trilemma: no ledger can satisfy all three properties simultaneously. A centralized record-keeper extracts …
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, these two equations imply that (3) the recurring, "flow", payments to miners for running the blockchain must be large … versus stock) if both (i) the mining technology used to run the blockchain is both scarce and non-repurposable, and (ii) any … majority attack is a "sabotage" in that it causes a collapse in the economic value of the blockchain; however, reliance on non …
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Permissionless blockchains were constructed with a view to being sustainably secure. At the heart of blockchain … propose blocks that would be added to the blockchain. A key rationale for that cost was to make attacks on the network, which …
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We report results from a large randomized natural field experiment conducted in southwestern China in the context of …
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Several papers study the effect of trust by using the answer to the World Values Survey (WVS) question "Generally speaking, would you say that most people can be trusted or that you can't be too careful in dealing with people?" to measure the level of trust. Glaeser et al. (2000) question the...
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We study the implications of a particular form of irrationality on the pricing behavior of firms in a monopolistic-competitive market with incomplete information. We assume that firms are overconfident, meaning that they over-estimate their abilities to understand the correct model of the...
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begin by reporting results from an experiment in which we investigate how cooperation in allocation games is affected by the …
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We study the impact of two dimensions of trust, namely trust in business elites and trust in government, on policy preferences. Using a randomized online survey, we find that our two treatments are effective in changing trust in Major Companies and in Courts/Government. In contrast to previous...
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, can affect outcomes. We explore the economics of revealing type in a simple laboratory experiment to learn about the …
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When we take a cab we may feel cheated if the driver takes an unnecessarily long route despite the lack of a contract or promise to take the shortest possible path. Is our decision to take the cab affected by our belief that we may end up feeling cheated? Is the behavior of the driver affected...
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