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Hornuf, Lars; Momtaz, Paul P.; Nam, Rachel J.; Yuan, Ye - 2023

We propose a taxonomy of cybercrime on the Ethereum blockchain and examine how cybercrime impacts victims’ risk …

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Non-Linearities, Cyber Attacks and Cryptocurrencies

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2019

This paper uses a Markov-switching non-linear specification to analyse the effects of cyber attacks on returns in the case of four cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethernam, Litecoin and Stellar) over the period 8/8/2015-28/2/2019. The analysis considers both cyber attacks in general and those...

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Cyber Attacks, Spillovers and Contagion in the Cryptocurrency Markets

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2020

This paper examines mean and volatility spillovers between three major cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Litecoin and Ethereum) and the role played by cyber attacks. Specifically, trivariate GARCH-BEKK models are estimated which include suitably defined dummies corresponding to different types, targets...

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Cybersecurity Risk

Florackis, Chris; Louca, Christodoulos; Michaely, Roni; … - 2021

We develop a novel firm-level measure of cybersecurity risk using textual analysis of cybersecurity-risk disclosures in corporate filings. The measure successfully identifies firms extensively discussing cybersecurity risk in their 10-K, displays intuitive relations with quantitative measures of...

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It is a Theft But Not a Crime

Balestrino, Alessandro - 2021

Why do people who normally refrain from committing illegalities become digital pirates? In this paper we use a theoretical model of digital piracy combined with a game-theoretic mechanism of social norm formation to argue that no social stigma is attached to digital piracy because the latter has...

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Embedded Supervision: How to Build Regulation into Decentralised Finance

Auer, Raphael A. - 2022

stablecoin issuers raises the challenge of how to apply technology-neutral regulation so that similar risks are subject to the … with blockchain-enabled credibility based on economic consensus. The key results set out the conditions under which the …

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Regulating national firms in a common market

Biancini, Sara - 2008

We consider the regulation of national firms in a common market. Regulators can influence the production of national …

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The demands for environmental regulation and for trade in the presence of private mitigation

Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - 2008

We study the nature of individual demands for environmental regulation and for trade openness in the general … respect to the stringency of regulation. Moreover, even though trade has the potential to benefit everyone, the poor may … oppose trade openness because of a concern that laxer environmental regulation will then be imposed in the interest of the …

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The political economy of regulatory risk

Strausz, Roland - 2010

This paper investigates political uncertainty as a source of regulatory risk. It shows that political parties have incentives to reduce regulatory risk actively: Mutually beneficial pre-electoral agreements that reduce regulatory risk always exist. Agreements that fully eliminate it exist when...

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Corruption and the shadow economy : an empirical analysis

Dreher, Axel; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2006

This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption and shadow economy are substitutes in high income countries while they are complements in low income countries. The hypotheses are tested for a cross-section of 120 countries and...

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