The book highlights the rise of Bitcoin, which is based on blockchain technology, and some of the many types of coins and tokens that emerged thereafter. Although Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have made national and international news with their dramatic rise and decline in value,...

Chapter 1 Cryptocurrencies as an Asset Class -- Chapter 2 Are virtual currencies virtuous? Ethical and Environmental Issues -- Chapter 3 Cryptocurrency Mining -- Chapter 4 Regulating Bitcoin: A Tax Case Study -- Chapter 5 Are Cryptocurrencies Truly Trustless? -- Chapter 6 Blockchain &...

1. Introduction -- 2. General Observations -- 3. FinTech and Market-based Financing -- 4. European Approaches to FinTech: The Role of Regulation and the Evolution of Supervision -- 5. FinTech, Chain Transactions and Open Banking -- 6. FinTech Firms -- 7. FinTech and Money -- 8. FinTech, RegTech...

1. Introduction -- 2. The Typology of Shadow Banking -- 3. Financial Intermediation: A Further Analysis -- 4. Securities Lending and Repos -- 5. Central Counterparties and Systemic Risk -- 6. Identifying Non-bank, Non-insurer Global Systemically Important Financial Institutions -- 7.The Policy...

1. The Macroeconomic Dimensions of Shadow Banking -- 2. Shadow Banking Around the Globe -- 3. The EU Shadow Banking Market -- 4. Shadow Banking in the Americas -- 5. Shadow Banking in Asia -- 6. Shadow Banking in (South) Africa -- 7. Future Directions -- 8. Statement of Principal Conclusions.

Chapter 1: Blockchain Technology -- Chapter 2: Blockchain Technology and the Banking Industry -- Chapter 3: Regulation on Blockchain -- Chapter 4: Blockchain: The Emerging of New Banks Business Models?. .

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: History -- Chapter 3: Europe -- Chapter 4: The Americas -- Chapter 5: India & Asia -- Chapter 6: Family Office Investing -- Chapter 7:Governance, Succession and Fraud -- Chapter 8: Philanthropy -- Chapter 9: Patronage, Collecting & New Frontiers -- Chapter...

Chapter 1. The Emergence of a New Asset Class: Digital Assets -- Chapter 2. An Asset Pricer’s Toolkit -- Chapter 3. Investment Styles in General -- Chapter 4. Related Literature -- Chapter 5. Digital Assets -- Chapter 6. Digital Assets in a Multi-asset Context -- Chapter 7. On the...

1. Introduction -- 2. Bubble Stories -- 3. Crash Stories -- 4. Money and Credit Features -- 5. Random Walks -- 6. Rationality Rules -- 7. Behavioral Beats -- 8. Bubble Dynamics -- 9. Behavioral Risk Features -- 10. Estimating and Forecasting -- 11. Financial Asset Bubble Theory.

Foreword -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I. Theoretical Foundation of Monetary Policy from Islamic Perspectives -- Chapter 2. Monetary Economics, Monetary Policy and Macroeconomic Model for an ‘Islamic’ Economy --...