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Faculty of
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Center for Innovative Finance

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11 Jun 2025 / News, Research, Journal Article

Characteristics of pension fund financial quality: the role of uncommitted funds.

Michael Huynh, Yvonne Seiler Zimmermann, and Heinz Zimmermann's paper was published in the journal Financial Markets and Portfolio Management

09 Apr 2025 / 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

01 Dec 2024 / 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)

14 Nov 2024 / 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

26 Aug 2024 / 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

15 Feb 2024 / 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

13 Feb 2024 / 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

22 Jan 2024 / 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

22 Dec 2023 / 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

31 Oct 2023 / 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

14 Sep 2023 / 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

21 Aug 2023 / 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

20 Jun 2023 / Research, Publication

An Introduction to Zero-Knowledge Proofs in Blockchains and Economics

Working Paper by Aleksander Berentsen, Jeremias Lenzi and Remo Nyffenegger

01 May 2023 / 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

23 Feb 2023 / 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

10 Feb 2023 / 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)

20 Dec 2022 / 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)