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Cryptocurrency Market Reactions to Regulatory News
Auer, Raphael - 2020
Cryptocurrencies are often thought to operate out of the reach of national regulation, but in fact their valuations …
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Bitcoin Price Co-Movements and Culture
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2020
-movements and exchange shutdowns in 34 major countries around the world over the period 20 July 2010 – 5 February 2020. Under the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841932
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The Microeconomics of Cryptocurrencies
Halaburda, Hanna; Haeringer, Guillaume; Gans, Joshua; … - 2021
Since its launch in 2009 much has been written about Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and blockchains. While the discussions initially took place mostly on blogs and other popular media, we now are witnessing the emergence of a growing body of rigorous academic research on these topics. By the nature...
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Crypto Trading and Bitcoin Prices : Evidence from a New Database of Retail Adoption
Auer, Raphael; Cornelli, Giulio; Doerr, Sebastian; … - 2023
Prices for cryptocurrencies have undergone multiple boom-bust cycles, together with ongoing entry by retail investors. To investigate the drivers of crypto adoption, we assemble a novel database (made available with this paper) on retail use of crypto exchange apps at daily frequency for 95...
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Cryptocurrencies, Technology Stocks, COVID-19 and US Policy Responses : A Fractional Integration Analysis
Abakah, Emmanuel Joel Aikins; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - 2022
This paper assesses the impact of US policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic on various cryptocurrencies and also technology stocks using fractional integration techniques. More precisely, it analyses the behaviour of the percentage returns in the case of nine major coins (Bitcoin - BITC,...
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Money Laundering and Corruption : Birds of a Feather Flock Together
Barone, Raffaella - 2019
This paper is the first to analyse the three-way relationship among money laundering, anti-money-laundering efforts and corruption. On the one hand, if we assume that the goal of criminals involved in corruption is to minimize the probability of being detected, then corruption represents a...
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Legal Uncertainty as a Welfare Enhancing Screen
Lang, Matthias - 2016
Consider legal uncertainty as uncertainty about the legality of a specific action. In particular, suppose that the threshold of legality is uncertain. I show that this legal uncertainty raises welfare. Legal uncertainty changes deterrence in opposite directions. The probability of conviction...
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Regulation in Swiss Cantons: Data for one Century
Luechinger, Simon; Schelker, Mark - 2015
In this paper, we present and illustrate novel data on more than a century of regulation in Switzerland. We provide … reflected in the annual changes to such regulation from 1908-2013. We measure the stock of regulation by the number of … heterogeneity in the stock of regulation and the amount and development of regulatory activity. Regulatory activity generally …
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The Political Economy of the G20 Agenda on Financial Regulation
Schuknecht, Ludger - 2020
The paper empirically examines the implementation record of international financial regulation of the banking sector … record is particularly strong in countries where large banking sectors and big banks are both present, and where regulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824593
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Climate Actions and Stranded Assets : The Role of Financial Regulation and Monetary Policy
Diluiso, Francesca - 2020
materialize. Financial regulation encouraging the decarbonization of the banks' balance sheets via tax-subsidy schemes …
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