Technical paper/Cryptocurrency
Central bank digital currency and other digital payments in sub-Saharan Africa: a regional survey
The authors highlight the motivations, benefits and challenges of central bank digital currency adoption in sub-Saharan Africa.
Agent-based modeling for decentralized autonomous organizations and decentralized finance
The authors propose agent-based modeling for the study of decentralized finance and decentralized autonomous organizations.
Beneath the crypto currents: the hidden effect of crypto “whales”
This paper investigates how different holders of Ether respond to volatility and price movements and shows how challenges and vulnerabilities of traditional finance can be found in the Ether ecosystem.
On par: a money view of stablecoins
The authors apply a money view analysis to stablecoins, revealing the character if existing on-chain liquidity mechanisms that support the premise of par settlement and finding liquidity rather than solvency to be the factor confronted by par settlement.
Centralized and decentralized payments networks: a simple cost comparison
This paper seeks to determine the feasibility of a widespread adoption of cryptocurrencies in payments by comparing centralized payments systems with cryptocurrencies.
Are cryptocurrencies cryptic or a source of arbitrage? A genetic algorithm approach
The authors identify triangular arbitrage trading opportunities through genetic algorithms in order to find insights into the volatility of cryptocurrencies and stablecoins with the largest market cap.
Dynamic connectedness between energy markets and cryptocurrencies: evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic
Following the Covid-19 pandemic, the authors use the time-varying parameter vector autoregression approach to to explore the connectedness between cryptocurrencies and international energy markets from 2018 to 2021.
Optimal allocation to cryptocurrencies in diversified portfolios
Asset allocation methods assign positive weights to cryptos in diversified portfolios
Extremes of extremes: risk assessment for very small samples with an exemplary application for cryptocurrency returns
The authors propose a means to carry out worst-case risk assessments from small sample sizes and demonstrate it using cryptocurrency returns as an example.
Market efficiency and volatility within and across cryptocurrency benchmark indexes
This paper examines the way that market efficiency and volatility clustering in the cryptocurrency markets can be inferred from benchmark index performance.
What drives Bitcoin fees? Using SegWit to assess Bitcoin’s long-run sustainability
In this paper the authors use block-level data from the Bitcoin blockchain to estimate the impact of congestion and the US dollar price on fee rates.
Cryptocurrency versus other financial instruments: how a small market affects a large market
This study analyzes the impact of cryptocurrencies on the function and position of financial markets.
Blockchain consensus protocols, energy consumption and cryptocurrency prices
The authors employ portfolio analysis to explore whether energy is a fundamental economic factor affecting cryptocurrency prices.
Universalities in the dynamics of cryptocurrencies: stability, scaling and size
The authors explore the effects of market capitalization on the dynamics of cryptocurrencies within both returns and volatility networks and show that these cryptocurrencies exhibit scaling properties in volatility with respect to market capitalization.
Should the central bank issue e-money?
Should a central bank take over the provision of e-money, a circulable electronic liability? The authors discuss how e-money technology changes the trade-off between public and private provision, and the trade-off between e-money and a central bank’s…