Binance Exchange Denies Sequoia's Allegation of Exclusivity Breach
Crypto exchange Binance has denied an allegation that its founder breached an exclusivity agreement with VC firm Sequoia Capital.
View ArticleBarclays, Goldman Champion ISDA Standard for Blockchain Derivatives
U.K.-based bank Barclays is pushing hard for a data standard for derivatives, as a foundation for that market to adopt distributed ledger technology.
View ArticleCoincheck Owner Monex Plans Proprietary Blockchain, ICO
The new owner of Japan's Coincheck exchange, Monex Group, says creating its own blockchain with an ICO to follow is on its radar.
View ArticleParity Says 'No Intention' To Split Ethereum Over Fund Recovery
Parity Technologies has said it has no plans to move forward with a code change that would result in an ethereum blockchain split.
View ArticleIBM Partners with Jewelry Industry on Hyperledger Supply Chain Project
IBM has teamed up with major jewelry businesses to bring transparency to the industry's supply chain with blockchain technology.
View ArticleBitcoin Risks Deeper Pullback After Drop Below $9K
After hitting a one-week low today, bitcoin risks a deeper pullback if support at $8,459 is breached, the technical charts indicate.
View ArticleSamsung Sets Q1 Profit Record with Crypto Mining Boost
Samsung has seen record growth in quarterly operating profits – an increase driven in part by strong demand for cryptocurrency mining chips.
View ArticleBBVA Issues $91 Million Loan Using Two Blockchains
Spanish banking giant BBVA has completed a pilot that issued a $91 million corporate loan using two different blockchain technologies.
View ArticleOmiseGo Hits Two-Month High Amid Airdrop and Exchange Listings
OmiseGo's OMG token is reporting double-digit gains today, possibly due to new listings on Asian exchanges and news of an airdrop.
View ArticleIOHK | Ouroboros Genesis: A Provably Secure Proof of Stake Blockchain...
Ouroboros Genesis - New research for Cardano We’re very proud to announce Ouroboros Genesis, a new paper from the IOHK research team. This latest version of Ouroboros, the algorithm powering...
View ArticleDaily: Nasdaq interested in listing Crypto / Chilean Exchanges Fight Big...
Nasdaq has expressed interest in listing cryptocurrencies in a recent announcement. They are waiting for the market to mature and for regulations to be clarified. Chilean exchanges use anti-monopoly...
View ArticleThe Effects of Home Health Visit Length on Hospital Readmission -- by Elena...
Home health care has experienced significant growth as an industry and is viewed as one of the avenues for achieving reductions in the cost and utilization of expensive downstream health care services....
View ArticlePre-event Trends in the Panel Event-study Design -- by Simon Freyaldenhoven,...
We consider a linear panel event-study design in which unobserved confounds may be related both to the outcome and to the policy variable of interest. We provide sufficient conditions to identify the...
View ArticleSeasonal Liquidity, Rural Labor Markets and Agricultural Production -- by...
Many rural households in low and middle income countries continue to rely on small-scale agriculture as their primary source of income. In the absence of irrigation, income arrives only once or twice...
View ArticleMultihorizon Currency Returns and Purchasing Power Parity -- by Mikhail...
Exposures of expected future depreciation rates to the current interest rate differential violate the UIP hypothesis in a distinctive pattern that is a non-monotonic function of horizon. Conversely,...
View ArticlePlace-Based Policies for Development -- by Gilles Duranton, Anthony J. Venables
Many development policies, such as placement of infrastructure or local economic development schemes, are "place-based." Such policies are generally intended to stimulate private sector investment and...
View ArticleA Practical Guide to Parallelization in Economics -- by Jesus...
This guide provides a practical introduction to parallel computing in economics. After a brief introduction to the basic ideas of parallelization, we show how to parallelize a prototypical application...
View ArticleThe Transmission of Commodity Price Super-Cycles -- by Felipe Benguria,...
We examine the channels through which commodity price super-cycles affect the economy. Exploiting regional variation in exposure to commodity price shocks and administrative firm-level data from Brazil...
View ArticleTail and Center Rounding of Probabilistic Expectations in the Health and...
A growing number of surveys elicit respondents' expectations for future events on a 0-100 scale of percent chance. These data reveal substantial heaping at multiples of 10 and 5 percent, suggesting...
View ArticleShock Value: Bill Smoothing and Energy Price Pass-Through -- by Catherine...
Energy price pass-through receives a lot of academic attention, for several reasons: energy prices can be highly volatile, they impact every consumer and every industry in the economy, and they are...
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