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experiment: In September 2021, El Salvador became the first country in the world to make bitcoin legal tender, and all economic …
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We show that "commodity currency" exchange rates have remarkably robust power in predicting global commodity prices …
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A bona fide currency functions as a medium of exchange, a store of value, and a unit of account, but bitcoin largely … investment than a currency …
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Over time, there has been a tendency for political jurisdictions and residents to converge on a single currency … uniform currency, insofar as it is free of counterparty and liquidity risk, facilitates economic activity. But will digital … maintain their stability is doubtful. The one unit that can clearly meet these challenges is central bank digital currency. But …
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The introduction of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) allows the central bank to engage in large …
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The rise of centralized mining pools for risk sharing does not necessarily undermine the decentralization required for permissionless blockchains: Each individual miner's cross-pool diversification and endogenous fees charged by pools generally sustain decentralization, because larger pools...
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We develop a dynamic asset-pricing model of cryptocurrencies/tokens that allow users to conduct peer-to-peer transactions on digital platforms. The equilibrium value of tokens is determined by aggregating heterogeneous users' transactional demand rather than discounting cashflows as in standard...
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We analyze the Bitcoin protocol for electronic peer-to-peer payments and the operations that support the "blockchain" that underpins it. It is shown that that protocol maps formally into a dynamic game that is an extension of standard models of R&D racing. The model provides a technical...
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We consider how a central bank digital currency (CBDC) could transform all aspects of the monetary system and …
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central bank money. The key differences between cash and central bank digital currency (CBDC) include transaction efficiency …
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