Specialty Conference

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Specialty Conference

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Nov 2018

Cellular structure for a digital fiat currency

Robleh ALI
Bitcoin introduced digital money without banks. It showed that functions of the financial system could be reliably executed by decentralized networks and in doing so raised the prospect of a new financial system. Almost a decade later, Bitcoin still works despite frequent predictions of its demise b...
Keywords: Bitcoin, digital currency, financial system
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Specialty Conference

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Nov 2018

Lessons for Cryptocurrencies from Foreign Exchange Markets

Charles ENGEL
This essay brings insights from the academic literature on foreign exchange rate determination to the analysis of cryptocurrency markets. We present a simple framework to summarize the factors that determine exchange rates. To the extent that cryptocurrencies are like national currencies issued by c...
Keywords: Foreign exchange, cryptocurrency, money, digital currencies, policy
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Nov 2018

Digital Money: Private versus Public

Barry EICHENGREEN
Both proponents and opponents of central bank digital currency have suggested that it would fundamentally change the macroeconomy. This column questions this paradigm, arguing that the introduction of such a currency need not alter the allocation nor the price system. Concerns about central bank dig...
Keywords: Central bank digital currency, Investment, bank runs
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Senior Fellows/Fellows

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Feb 2017

Busy Directors: Strategic Interaction and Monitoring Synergies

Alexander LJUNGQVIST, Konrad RAFF
We derive conditions for when having a “busy” director on the board is harmful to shareholders and when it is beneficial. Our model allows directors to condition their monitoring choices on their co-directors’ choices and to experience positive or negative monitoring synergies across firms. ...
Keywords: Boards of Directors, Busy Directors, Monitoring
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Senior Fellows/Fellows

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Feb 2017

Dynamic Trade, Endogenous Institutions And The Colonization Of Hong Kong: A Staged Development Framework

T. Terry CHEUNG, Theodore PALIVOS, Ping WANG, Yin-Chi WANG, Chong K. YIP
To explore the interplays between trade and institutions, we construct a staged development framework with multi-period discrete choices to study the colonization of Hong Kong, which served to facilitate the trade of several agricultural and manufactured products, including opium, between Britain an...
Keywords: trade, Hong Kong, Staged development framework
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