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Cryptocurrency market reactions to regulatory news
Auer, Raphael A.; Claessens, Stijn - 2020
Cryptocurrencies are often thought to operate out of the reach of national regulation, but in fact their valuations …
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Can bitcoin mining increase renewable electricity capacity?
Bruno, August; Weber, Paige; Yates, Andrew J. - 2022
Proponents of Bitcoin argue that demand for electricity from Bitcoin miners can lead to an increase in renewable electricity capacity. We rigorously evaluate this claim by estimating a Bitcoin electricity demand curve and include this demand curve in a long-run model of the Texas electricity...
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Crypto trading and bitcoin prices : evidence from a new database of retail adoption
Auer, Raphael A.; Cornelli, Giulio; Dörr, 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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Regulation in Swiss cantons : data for one country
Lüchinger, 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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Asymmetric neutrality regulation and innovation at the edges : fixed vs. mobile networks
Choi, Jay Pil; Jeon, Doh-Shin; Kim, Byung-Cheol - 2014
We study how net neutrality regulations affect a high-bandwidth content provider's (CP) investment incentives in quality of services (QoS). We find that the effects crucially depend on network capacity levels. With limited capacity, as in mobile networks, prioritized delivery services are...
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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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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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Cross-country co-movement between Bitcoin exchanges : a cultural analysis
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Kang, Woo-Young - 2020
This paper analyses co-movement between Bitcoin exchanges in 34 major countries around the world and the US (the global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012158101
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789223
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The emergence of the global fintech market : economic and technological determinants
Haddad, Christian; Hornuf, Lars - 2016 - This Version: August 25, 2016
We investigate the economic and technological determinants inducing entrepreneurs to establish ventures with the purpose of reinventing financial technology (fintech). We find that countries witness more fintech startup formations when the latest technology is readily available and people have...
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