CHAPTER 1 Centralized Exchange Hacks and Attacks (Part 1) -- CHAPTER 2 Centralized Exchange Hacks and Attacks (Part 2) -- CHAPTER 3 DeFi Frauds and Exploits (Part 1) -- CHAPTER 4 DeFi Frauds and Exploits (Part 2) -- CHAPTER 5 Ponzi Schemes and Affinity Fraud -- CHAPTER 6 Cryptocurrency Fraud in...

There is a large literature on earnings and income volatility in labor economics, household finance, and macroeconomics. One strand of that literature has studied whether individual earnings volatility has risen or fallen in the U.S. over the last several decades. There are strong disagreements...

Thanks to extraordinary and exponential improvements in data storage and computing capacities, it is now possible to collect, manage, and analyze data in magnitudes and in manners that would have been inconceivable just a short time ago. As the world has developed this remarkable capacity to...

This paper aims to assess the extent to which top earners in Ecuador were affected by the COVID-19 crisis compared to other segments of the population. Our analysis uses administrative data for individuals affiliated to social security between January 2019 and December 2021. We identify the top...