Research

All Research concerning the Center for Innovative at the University of Basel.

 

Zimmermann and Böni

/ News, Research, Journal Article

Prof. Heinz Zimmermann and Prof. Pascal Böni won best paper award

Prof. Heinz Zimmermann and Prof. Pascal Böni won the ZKB Best Paper Award 2024 for the best Paper in the journal Financial Markets and Portfolio Management
Prof. Schär

/ News, Research, Publication, Blockchain

Enhancing financial services with permissionless blockchains

Prof. Fabian Schär has authored a report on Enhancing financial services with permissionless blockchains for the Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (European Commission)
Nyffenegger

/ News, Research, Doctorate/PhD

Central bank digital currency and bank intermediation: Medium of Exchange vs. Savings vehicle

Remo Nyffenegger's paper on CBDC was published in the European Economic Review
Price per Parcel

/ News, Research, Doctorate/PhD, Publication, Journal Article, Metaverse

Land valuation in the metaverse: location matters

Mitchell Goldberg, Peter Kugler, and Fabian Schär's paper was published in the Journal of Economic Geography
Zimmermann and Böni

/ News, Research, Publication, Journal Article

The Credit Suisse bailout in hindsight: not a bitter pill to swallow, but a case to follow

Publication by Pascal Böni and Heinz Zimmermann in the Financial Markets and Portfolio Management Journal
DeFi Regulation Paper

/ Research, DeFi, Publication, Journal Article

On DeFi and On-Chain CeFi: How (Not) to Regulate Decentralized Finance

Publication by Katrin Schuler, Ann Sofie Cloots, and Fabian Schär in the Journal of Financial Regulation
DCG

/ News, Research, Publication, Blockchain, Journal Article

Decentralized Crypto Governance? Transparency and Concentration in Ethereum Decision-Making

Publication by Cesare Fracassi, Moazzam Khoja, and Fabian Schär
Privacy Paper

/ Research, Blockchain, Publication, Journal Article

Blockchain Privacy and Regulatory Compliance: Towards a Practical Equilibrium

Publication by Vitalik Buterin, Jacob Illum, Matthias Nadler, Fabian Schär and Ameen Soleimani in Elsevier's Blockchain Research and Applications
Payoffs considering strategic default

/ Research, Publication, DeFi

Contagion and loss redistribution in crypto asset markets

Publication by Katrin Schuler, Matthias Nadler and Fabian Schär in Elsevier's Economics Letters
privacy paper

/ News, Research

Great Resonance of the New Publication: Blockchain Privacy and Regulatory Compliance: Towards a Practical Equilibrium

Prof. Fabian Schär, Matthias Nadler, Vitalik Buterin, Jacob Illum, and Ameen Soleimani published their paper at the Finance Meets DLT conference and it had great resonance
Size of and Connections Between Business Sectors

/ Research, Metaverse, Publication

Retailing and Customer Engagement in the Metaverse: An Empirical Analysis

Publication by Mitchell Goldberg, Fabian Schär, and Dario Thürkauf
Difference between the UTXO model in Bitcoin and the Zcash Model

/ Research, Publication

An Introduction to Zero-Knowledge Proofs in Blockchains and Economics

Working Paper by Aleksander Berentsen, Jeremias Lenzi and Remo Nyffenegger
Metaverse governance: An empirical analysis of voting within Decentralized Autonomous Organizations

/ Research, Metaverse, Publication, Journal Article

Metaverse Governance: An Empirical Analysis of Voting Within Decentralized Autonomous Organizations

Publication by Mitchell Goldberg and Fabian Schär in Journal of Business Research, Volume 160 (2023) 113764
Tornado Cash and Blockchain Privacy: A Primer for Economists and Policymakers

/ Research, Publication, Blockchain

Tornado Cash and Blockchain Privacy: A Primer for Economists and Policymakers

Publication by Matthias Nadler and Fabian Schär in Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, forthcoming
Decentralized Exchanges: The Profitability Frontier of Constant Product Market Makers

/ Research, DeFi, Publication, Conference Paper

Decentralized Exchanges: The Profitability Frontier of Constant Product Market Makers

Research paper by Tobias Bitterli and Fabian Schär published at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC)
DeFi Risk Transfer: Towards A Fully Decentralized Insurance Protocol

/ Research, DeFi, Publication, Conference Paper

DeFi Risk Transfer: Towards A Fully Decentralized Insurance Protocol

Matthias Nadler, Felix Bekemeier and Fabian Schär have published this research paper in the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC)
The Tokenization of Assets: Using Blockchains for Equity Crowdfunding

/ Research, DeFi, Publication

The Tokenization of Assets: Using Blockchains for Equity Crowdfunding

Research paper by Jakob Roth, Fabian Schär, Aljoscha Schöpfer
Decentralized Finance: On Blockchain- and Smart Contract-Based Financial Markets

/ News, Research, DeFi, Publication

Decentralized Finance: On Blockchain- and Smart Contract-Based Financial Markets

Publication of Fabian Schär in Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review 103 (2), pp. 153-74
Blockchain Forks: A Formal Classification Framework and Persistency Analysis

/ Research, Blockchain, Publication

Blockchain Forks: A Formal Classification Framework and Persistency Analysis

Research paper by Fabian Schär published in the Singapore Economic Review
Stablecoins, Digital Currency, and the Future of Money

/ Research, DeFi, Publication

Stablecoins, Digital Currency, and the Future of Money

Paper by Alexander Lipton, Aetienne Sardon, Fabian Schär and Christian Schüpbach
Cryptocurrencies: Miner Heterogeneity, Botnets, and Proof-of-Work Efficiency

/ Research, Blockchain, Publication, Journal Article

Cryptocurrencies: Miner Heterogeneity, Botnets, and Proof-of-Work Efficiency

Research paper by Fabian Schär published in the Frontiers in Blockchain journal