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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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Cybercrime on the ethereum blockchain

Hornuf, Lars; Momtaz, Paul; 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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Promise not fulfilled : FinTech, data privacy, and the GDPR

Dorfleitner, Gregor; Hornuf, Lars; Kreppmeier, Julia - 2021

This article analyzes how the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has affected the privacy practices of FinTech firms. We study the content of 308 privacy statements respectively before and after the GDPR became binding. Using textual analysis methods, we find that the readability of the...

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Ad networks, consumer tracking, and privacy

D'Annunzio, Anna; Russo, Antonio - 2017 - This version: September 2017

We study the relation between ad networks, consumer privacy and the online advertising market. We consider two publishers that can outsource their ad inventories to an ad network, in a market where consumers and advertisers endogenously multi-home. Differently from publishers, the ad network...

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Non-linearities, cyber attacks and cryptocurrencies

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Kang, Woo-Young; Spagnolo, Fabio - 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 and cryptocurrencies

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Kang, Woo-Young; Spagnolo, Fabio - 2020

This paper provides some comprehensive evidence on the effects of cyber-attacks on the returns, realized volatility and trading volume of five of the main cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, XRP and Stellar) in 99 developed and developing countries. More specifically, it investigates...

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Cyber attacks, spillovers and contagion in the cryptocurrency markets

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Kang, Woo-Young; Spagnolo, Fabio - 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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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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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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