CEBRA’s 2020 Annual Meeting at LSE & Bank of England 

This session was organized by CEBRA 

Parallel Session 1: Markets, Currencies, and Payments, Session 34: The Economics of Cryptocurrencies and Decentral Consensus

Chair: Cyril Monnet (BIS)

Speakers:

“Global Demand for Basket-Backed Stablecoins” Jean Flemming (Federal Reserve Board) joint with Garth Baughman

“Committee Blockchain Consensus Protocol as Game versus Adversaries” Bruno Biais (Toulouse School of Economics)

“Too Big to Cheat: Mining Pools’ Incentives to Double Spend in Blockchain Based Cryptocurrencies” Ville Savolainen (Hanken School of Economics) joint with Jorge Soria

“Ride the Lightning: Turning Bitcoin into Money” Peter Zimmerman (FRB Cleveland) joint with Anantha Divakaruni