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Beyond the Rebel ‘Territorial Trap’: Governing Armed Sovereign Formations in Eastern Myanmar

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Territorial control is a central concept in the study of civil wars and rebel governance. However, scholars often fall into a ‘territorial trap’, assuming that territorial control is either an outcome of or a precondition for armed governance. Based on immersive fieldwork in eastern Myanmar, this article traces how different spatial orderings ...
Tony Neil, Saw Day Chit Htoo
wiley   +1 more source

Can Central Bank Digital Currencies Promote the Internationalization of Currencies?

European Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using multinational data (2000–2023), this study employed system GMM and fixed‐effects models to examine CBDC's impact on currency internationalization through a framework measuring ‘market acceptance’ and ‘policy drive.’ The results indicated that CBDC advancement significantly promotes currency internationalization.
Haodong Gu
wiley   +1 more source

Miners' Reward Elasticity and Stability of Competing Proof‐of‐Work Cryptocurrencies

International Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Proof‐of‐Work cryptocurrencies employ miners to sustain the system through algorithmic reward adjustments. We develop a stochastic model of the multicurrency mining and identify conditions for stable transaction speeds. Bitcoin's algorithm requires hash supply elasticity <$<$1 for stability, while ASERT remains stable for any elasticity and ...
Kohei Kawaguchi, Junpei Komiyama, Shunya Noda   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Are Sustainable Cryptocurrencies Immune to Policy Uncertainties? Unveiling the Asymmetric Implications of Climate and Global Economic Policy Uncertainty for Green Cryptocurrencies

Revista Finanzas y Política Económica
Advanced blockchain technologies and growing environmental and economic uncertainties have  otivated us to investigate the impact of climate policy uncertainty (CPU) and global economic policy uncertainty (GEPU) on five green cryptocurrencies—ADA, EOS ...
Aamir Aijaz Syed, Alka Singh
doaj   +1 more source

Inference via the Skewness‐Kurtosis Set

International Statistical Review, EarlyView.
Summary Kurtosis minus squared skewness is bounded from below by 1, but for unimodal distributions, this parameter is bounded by 189/125. In some applications, it is natural to compare distributions by comparing their kurtosis‐minus‐squared‐skewness parameters. The asymptotic behavior of the empirical version of this parameter is studied here for i.i.d.
Chris A. J. Klaassen, Bert van Es
wiley   +1 more source

Value-Added Tax (VAT) Implications of Cryptocurrencies: A Comparative Analysis of Tax Classification and Compliance

International Journal of Applied Research in Business and Management
The rapid growth and adoption of decentralized digital currencies have disrupted the global financial systems, posing significant challenges for regulatory frameworks, particularly in taxation.
Sibonelo Sibahle Mpanza
doaj   +1 more source

Specification Tests for Jump‐Diffusion Models Based on the Characteristic Function

International Statistical Review, EarlyView.
Summary Goodness‐of‐fit tests are suggested for several popular jump‐diffusion processes. The suggested test statistics utilise the marginal characteristic function of the model and its L2‐type discrepancy from an empirical counterpart. Model parameters are estimated either by minimising the aforementioned L2‐type discrepancy or by maximum likelihood ...
Gerrit Lodewicus Grobler, Denis Belomestny, Simos George Meintanis, Emanuele Taufer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Open Banking Regulation to Platform Orchestration: The Evolution of Digital Platform Governance

Information Systems Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study contributes to information systems (IS) scholarship by extending platform governance theory to regulatory contexts, explaining how regulatory forces co‐evolve with technological architectures to shape openness and control. This research examines the evolution of platform governance in the context of open banking, where regulatory ...
Priyadharshini Muthukannan, Daniel Gozman, Barney Tan, Prakash Dhavamani   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

How and Why EU Institutions Promote the Digital Euro: The Politics of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The future of money is a crucial issue in the digital age, and the emergence of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) is widely recognised as a transformative development. However, despite its significant implications for monetary sovereignty, regulatory governance and strategic autonomy, we know relatively little about the political ...
Sebastian Heidebrecht
wiley   +1 more source

What Are Asset Price Bubbles? A Survey on Definitions of Financial Bubbles

Journal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Financial bubbles and crashes have repeatedly caused economic turmoil notably but not just during the 2008 financial crisis. However, both in the popular press as well as scientific publications, the meaning of bubble is sometimes unspecified.
Michael Heinrich Baumann, Anja Janischewski   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source