The 2012 Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley for their work on matching problems. Two-sided matching problems, like assigning jobs to workers or dorm rooms to students, can be complicated enough. But sometimes the matching problem can be even more difficult. It may be that…
An Application of Shapley Value Cost Allocation to Liquidity Savings Mechanisms (Journal of Money, Credit and Banking)
Dinero Electrónico: The Rise and Fall of Ecuador’s Central Bank Digital Currency with Andrés Arauz and Diego F Ramos F (Latin American Journal of Central Banking)
Privacy as a Public Good: A Case for Electronic Cash with Maarten van Oordt (Journal of Political Economy)
Monetizing Privacy, with Michael Lee (FRBNY Staff Reports)
Estimating Policy Functions in Payments Systems using Deep Reinforcement Learning, with P. S. Castro, A Desai, H. Du and F. Rivadeneyra (Best Paper Award, NeurIPS 2020)
Monetizing Privacy with Central Bank Digital Currencies, with M. Lee (Liberty Street Economics)
COVID-19 and the Search for Digital Alternatives to Cash, with M. Lee and A. Plesset (Liberty Street Economics)
Token- or Account-Based? A digital currency Can be Both, with Michael Lee, Brendan Malone and Antoine Martin (Liberty Street Economics)
Why Fixed Costs Matter for Proof-of-Work Based Cryptocurrencies with Maarten van Oordt (Best Cryptoeconomics Paper,The Third Toronto Fintech Conference 2020)
Investigating the Impact of Global Stablecoins (I am one of many contributors to this report.)
The Economics of Distributed Ledger Technologies for Securities Settlement with E. Benos and P. Gurrola-Perez (Ledger Journal)
Who Sees the Trades? The Effect of Information on Liquidity in Inter-Dealer Markets with Michael Lee, Antoine Martin and Robert Townsend
An Application of Shapley Value Cost Allocation to Liquidity Savings Mechanisms, Bank of Canada Staff Working Paper
Entrepreneurial Incentives and the Role of Initial Coin Offerings with Maarten van Oordt
Nonlinear Pricing and the Market for Settling Payments with Adam Copeland (Journal of Money, Credit and Banking)
Bitcoin 1, Bitcoin 2, … : An Experiment in Privately Issued Outside Monies with Neil Wallace (Economic Inquiry)
A Proposal for a Decentralized Liquidity Savings Mechanism with Side Payments with Adam Furgal, Dave Hudson and Zhiling Guo (R3 Report)
Centralized Netting in Financial Networks with Peter Zimmerman (Journal of Banking & Finance)
Project Jasper: A Canadian Experiment with Distributed Ledger Technology for Domestic Interbank Payments Settlement (I am one of many contributors to this white paper that elaborates on the BoC FSR article.)
Central Bank Cryptocurrencies with Morten Bech (BIS Quarterly Review)
Project Jasper: Are Distributed Wholesale Payment Systems Feasible Yet? with J. Chapman, S. Hendry, A. McCormack and W. McMahon (Bank of Canada Financial System Review)
CAD-coin versus Fedcoin (R3 Report)
The Paypod The Current State of Central Bank Currencies July 28, 2020
TSE Sustainable Finance Center, Protect Privacy With Electronic Cash, November 2019.
The UCSB Current The Tipping Point August 9, 2018.
Computerworld Is the U.S. headed to a cashless economy through blockchain? April 25, 2018.
The World Weekly Central governments and cryptocurrency: an unlikely pairing? January 11, 2018
CNBC Next stop in the cryptocurrency craze: A government-backed coin November 30, 2017
Financial Sense Fedcoin and central bank cryptocurrencies October 18, 2017
MIT Technology Review Governments are Testing Their Own Cryptocurrencies September 25, 2017
The Street Bitcoin: The World’s Most Expensive Nothingburger August 23, 2017
Coin desk Decentralizing Central Banks: How R3 Envisions the Future of Fiat April 5, 2017
American Banker Cheat Sheet: Radical visions of central bank-issned digital currencies March 14, 2017
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