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The Myths of Blockchain Governance

open access: yesCorporate Governance: An International Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research Question/Issue Blockchain technology promises to revolutionize governance through strong commitments, trustlessness, and transparency. This paper examines how these promises have failed to materialize in practice. Research Findings/Insights Drawing on case evidence from major blockchains, including Bitcoin and Ethereum, I argue that ...
Daniel Ferreira
wiley   +1 more source

Implicit Promises and the Timing of Defined‐Benefit Pension Plan Freezes

open access: yesFinancial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Firms time defined‐benefit (DB) plan freezes after CEO turnovers to protect CEO retirement benefits from cost cuts affecting the wider workforce. We document a significant increase in voluntary CEO turnovers just before the freeze, without notable post‐freeze changes.
Zacharias Petrou, Adamos Vlittis
wiley   +1 more source

An Economic Analysis of Difficulty Adjustment Algorithms in Proof‐of‐Work Blockchain Systems

open access: yesInternational Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study the stability of cryptocurrency systems through difficulty adjustment. Bitcoin's difficulty adjustment algorithm (DAA) exhibits instability when the reward elasticity of the hash rate is high, implying that a sharp price reduction could disrupt the current Bitcoin system.
Shunya Noda   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cryptocurrency Bubbles and Costly Mining

open access: yesInternational Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper develops a model of a cryptocurrency by incorporating mining into the otherwise standard search‐theoretic monetary framework. As usual, multiple equilibria exist. To obtain a sharp prediction on whether a cryptocurrency' s value will last in the future, I propose a notion of equilibrium refinement based on the feature that mining ...
Kohei Iwasaki
wiley   +1 more source

Scoping Review of Sexual and Gender Minority Health Research in Ireland

open access: yesJournal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To map existing sexual and gender minority (SGM) health research in Ireland, identify gaps in literature and outline priorities for future research and healthcare. SGM is an umbrella term that includes people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or intersex and is sometimes abbreviated as LGBTQI+.
John P. Gilmore   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Double-Hashing Algorithm for Frequency Estimation in Data Streams [PDF]

open access: green, 2022
Nikita Seleznev   +2 more
openalex   +1 more source

Waking a Dormant Legal Resource: Institutional Activation and the Origins of Important Projects of Common European Interest

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEIs) have become a central tool of the European Union's (EU) new industrial policy. IPCEIs derive their peculiar name from an exemption to the general prohibition on state aid that has existed since the Treaty of Rome but has only led to the creation of a stand‐alone policy instrument in 2014.
Timo Seidl, Henrique Lopes‐Valença
wiley   +1 more source

Sensemaking of Process Data from Evaluation Studies of Educational Games: An Application of Cross‐Classified Item Response Theory Modeling

open access: yesJournal of Educational Measurement, EarlyView.
Abstract Process information collected from educational games can illuminate how students approach interactive tasks, complementing assessment outcomes routinely examined in evaluation studies. However, the two sources of information are historically analyzed and interpreted separately, and diagnostic process information is often underused.
Tianying Feng, Li Cai
wiley   +1 more source

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