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Rise of the central bank digital currencies : drivers, approaches and technologies
Auer, Raphael A.; Cornelli, Giulio; Frost, Jon - 2020
Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are receiving more attention than ever before. Yet the motivations for issuance vary across countries, as do the policy approaches and technical designs. We investigate the economic and institutional drivers of CBDC development and take stock of design...
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Distrust or speculation? : the socioeconomic drivers of U.S. cryptocurrency investments
Auer, Raphael A.; Tercero-Lucas, David - 2021
Employing representative data from the U.S. Survey of Consumer Payment Choice, we disprove the hypothesis that cryptocurrency investors are motivated by distrust in fiat currencies or regulated finance. Compared with the general population, investors show no differences in their level of...
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Tech in Fin before FinTech : blessing or curse for financial stability?
Pierri, Nicola; Timmer, Yannick - 2020
Motivated by the world-wide surge of FinTech lending, we analyze the implications of lenders' information technology adoption for financial stability. We estimate bank-level intensity of IT adoption before the global financial crisis using a novel dataset that provides information on hardware...
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Banking in the shadow of bitcoin? : the institutional adoption of cryptocurrencies
Auer, Raphael A.; Farag, Marc; Lewrick, Ulf; Orazem, Lovrenc - 2023
The phenomenal growth of cryptocurrencies raises important questions about their footprint on the financial system. What role are traditional financial intermediaries playing in cryptocurrency markets and what drives their engagement? Are new nodes emerging? We help answer these questions by...
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The rise of generative AI : modelling exposure, substitution, and inequality effects on the US labour market
Auer, Raphael A.; Köpfer, David; Švéda, Josef - 2024
How exposed is the labour market to ever-advancing AI capabilities, to what extent does this substitute human labour, and how will it affect inequality? We address these questions in a simulation of 711 US occupations classified by the importance and level of cognitive skills. We base our...
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Embedded supervision : how to build regulation into decentralised finance
Auer, Raphael A. - 2022
with blockchain-enabled credibility based on economic consensus. The key results set out the conditions under which the …
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The microeconomics of cryptocurrencies
Hałaburda, 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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An equilibrium model of the market for Bitcoin mining
Prat, Julien; Walter, Benjamin - 2018
We propose a model which uses the Bitcoin/US dollar exchange rate to predict the computing power of the Bitcoin network. We show that free entry places an upper-bound on mining revenues and we devise a structural framework to measure its value. Calibrating the model's parameters allows us to...
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An economic analysis of blockchains
Waelbroeck, Patrick - 2018
The blockchain is a technology that goes beyond timestamping, bitcoin and secure financial transactions. The … development of an ecosystem around smart connected objects will probably not happen without the blockchain (in one form or another …). The blockchain opens the door to the liquification of the physical world, to the economy of real-time micro …
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Why Bitcoin and Ethereum differ in transaction costs : a theory of blockchain fee policies
Ndiaye, Abdoulaye - 2024
conflict between the blockchain designer and validators with monopoly power in choosing between price-setting and quantity …
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