The rise of the crypto-asset market has opened up a number of questions on their benefits and risks. As a new form of virtual property, cryptocurrencies and tokens of investment nature are characterized by specific technological infrastructure. In order to understand the regulatory perspective...

why banks must be supervised? -- How that all come to be? -- Big Depression – events forcing the regulator’s hand -- Great recession- the ugly daughter of deregulation -- The asymmetry -- How can supervision prevent financial crises? .

This paper presents and analyses new datasets of de jure Currency-Based Measures (CBMs) directed at banks in a sample of 49 countries between 2005 and 2013. These measures are bank regulations that apply a discrimination−e.g. a less favourable treatment−on the basis of the currency of an...