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A Luna-tic Stablecoin Crash
Uhlig, Harald - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
After remaining close to 1 US Dollar since its inception in November 2020, the algorithmic stablecoin UST crashed in the two weeks of May 9th to May 15th, 2022, leading to a price collapse of the underlying LUNA token and the erasure of more than 50 Billion U.S. Dollar or 90% in market value
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The Profitability of Currency Speculation
Bilson, John F. O. - 1983
This paper presents the results of a post-sample simulation of a speculative strategy using a portfolio of foreign currency forward contracts.The main new features of the speculative strategy are (a)the use of Kalman filters to update the forecasting equation, (b) the allowance for...
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The Forward Exchange Market, Speculation, and Exchange Market Intervention
Eaton, Jonathan - 1983
This paper develops a stochastic equilibrium model of an open economy incorporating speculation in the forward exchange … market. The model is used to examine two issues. The first is the role of speculation in stabilizing the economy against … stochastic disturbances. Much risk averse speculation stabilizes domestic income against disturbances in the domestic bond market …
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Rational Speculation and Exchange Rates
Duarte, Margarida - 2001
variables. Therefore, the model has the potential to deliver changes in exchange rates, resulting from rational speculation … like asset prices. However, it does not generate a sufficient degree of rational speculation to explain either observed …
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Are Cryptocurrencies Currencies? Bitcoin as Legal Tender in El Salvador
Alvarez, Fernando E.; Argente, David; Van Patten, Diana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper studies the potential of a cryptocurrency to become a medium of exchange. We use evidence from a natural experiment: In September 2021, El Salvador became the first country in the world to make bitcoin legal tender, and all economic agents were required to accept bitcoin for all...
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Central Bank Digital Currency : Central Banking For All?
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús - 2020
The introduction of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) allows the central bank to engage in large-scale intermediation by competing with private financial intermediaries for deposits. Yet, since a central bank is not an investment expert, it cannot invest in long-term projects itself, but...
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Decentralized Mining in Centralized Pools
Cong, Lin William - 2019
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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Tokenomics : Dynamic Adoption and Valuation
Cong, Lin William - 2020
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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Market Structure in Bitcoin Mining
Ma, June - 2018
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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Central Bank Digital Currency and the Future of Monetary Policy
Bordo, Michael D. - 2017
We consider how a central bank digital currency (CBDC) could transform all aspects of the monetary system and facilitate the systematic and transparent conduct of monetary policy. In particular, we find that CBDC can serve as a practically costless medium of exchange, secure store of value, and...
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