2017: A Defining Year for Cryptocurrency Regulation
This Year in Review article look at some of the major regulatory developments from 2017.
View ArticleBitcoin Average Dormancy: A Measure of Turnover and Trading Activity....
Attempts to accurately measure the monetary velocity or related properties of bitcoin used in transactions have often attempted to either directly apply definitions from traditional macroeconomic...
View ArticleForeign Portfolio Investment and Economy: The Network Perspective....
The European Union and Eurozone present an inquisitive case of strongly interconnected network with high degree of dependence among nodes. This research focused on investment network of European Union...
View ArticlePricing variance swaps under Levy process with stochastic volatility and CIR...
This study focuses on the pricing of the variance swap in the financial market where the stochastic interest rate and the volatility of the stock are driven by Cox-Ingersoll-Ross model and Heston model...
View ArticleRethinking Stabilization Policy: Evolution or Revolution? -- by Olivier J....
The obvious lesson from the Great Financial Crisis is that the financial system matters and financial crises will probably happen again. The second, more general, lesson is that the economy is often...
View ArticleFrictional Coordination -- by George-Marios Angeletos
The notion that business cycles are driven by demand shocks is subtle. I first review the conceptual and empirical challenges faced when trying to accommodate this notion in modern, micro-founded,...
View ArticleGlobal Inequality when Unequal Countries Create Unequal People -- by Martin...
Current global inequality measures assume that national-mean income does not matter to economic welfare at given household income, as measured in surveys. The paper questions that assumption on...
View ArticleShould Retail Investors' Leverage Be Limited? -- by Rawley Z. Heimer, Alp Simsek
Does the provision of leverage to retail traders improve market quality or facilitate socially inefficient speculation that enriches financial intermediaries? This paper evaluates the effects of 2010...
View ArticleDo Taxes Increase Economic Inequality? A Comparative Study Based on the State...
I present new quasi-experimental evidence on the relationship between tax policies and the distribution of income. I focus on the twentieth century United States, and on the personal income tax, since...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence and Its Implications for Income Distribution and...
Inequality is one of the main challenges posed by the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) and other forms of worker-replacing technological progress. This paper provides a taxonomy of the...
View ArticleMonday 1 January 2018 An Official Holiday For Qatar Stock Exchange
Qatar Stock Exchange hereby informs you as follows: It has been decided that Monday 1 January 2018 will be an official holiday at Qatar Stock Exchange and work shall resume on Tuesday 2 January 2018....
View ArticleThe Amman Stock Exchange Index Quarterly Review
Mr. Bassam Abu Abbas the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) said that the ASE has conducted the periodic quarterly review of the ASE index constituents in purpose of...
View ArticleThe Saudi Stock Exchange Performance Report – Annual Statistical Report...
At the end of the year 2017 Tadawul All Share Index (TASI) closed at a level of 7,226.32 points compared to 7,210.43 points for the previous year, gained 15.89 points 0.22%. The highest close level for...
View ArticlePieter Wuille
Speak softly and carry a big SegWit? If bitcoin saw its biggest and most controversial change this summer, the evolution can all be traced back to one developer. Still, the founder of the controversial...
View ArticleYao Qian
Call it the biggest short in history. China took plenty of actions against cryptocurrencies in 2017, banning ICOs, shutting down domestic exchanges and all but taking a match to what was once one of...
View ArticleJoe Lubin
Part sheriff? Part outlaw? Either way, Joe Lubin appears right at home in the "Wild West" of cryptocurrencies. The leader of a company that's part ethereum project incubator, part change-the-world...
View ArticleNaval Ravikant
If crypto assets really are the "Craziest Bubble Ever," then Naval Ravikant is the movement's elder statesman. The founder of AngelList, Ravikant didn't talk much about startups in 2017, instead...
View ArticleCharlie Lee
It's good to be Charlie. After years of working at the first "Bitcoin Unicorn," Lee stepped out on his own in 2017 to take up arms against those who would delay bitcoin technical development. His...
View ArticleJamie Dimon
"Bitcoin is a fraud." Four small words ignited a maelstrom when JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon took the stage at a conference in September. The blockchain world was never quite the same again. In response,...
View ArticleBitcoin Sign Guy
The man behind the sign steps into the light to reveal his motives. In a year beset by savage infighting, Bitcoin Sign Guy took a stand, with a small action that not only broke the internet, but raised...
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