On June 16 and 17 2022, the blockchain@X chair at Ecole Polytechnique organized a unique event in Paris: The Future.s of Money. Many experts and actors from the economic, financial, digital and research worlds gathered around conferences dealing with the future and the digitalisation of money, now accessible to all.
CBER Symposium: Digital Currency Competition Description The event will be hosted by Aleh Tsyvinkski (Yale University) and will include the following presentations: “The Coming Battle…
This paper studies how transaction fees and seigniorage, equivalent to inflation in the cryptocurrency setting, affect miner incentives and trade congestion. Each cryptocurrency miner chooses how many new transactions to group into the next block of transactions that the miner competes to validate. The successful miner earns (i) transaction fees…
The inaugural theme-based webinar aims to bring together scholars to present their findings on the basic empirical patterns in the cryptocurrency space, covering ICOs, secondary markets, and manipulation and regulation.
