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

/ 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
/ 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)
/ 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
/ 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
/ 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
/ 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
/ 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
/ 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
/ 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
/ 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
/ Research, Metaverse, Publication
Retailing and Customer Engagement in the Metaverse: An Empirical Analysis
Publication by Mitchell Goldberg, Fabian Schär, and Dario Thürkauf
/ Research, Publication
An Introduction to Zero-Knowledge Proofs in Blockchains and Economics
Working Paper by Aleksander Berentsen, Jeremias Lenzi and Remo Nyffenegger
/ 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
/ 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
/ 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)
/ 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)
/ Research, DeFi, Publication
The Tokenization of Assets: Using Blockchains for Equity Crowdfunding
Research paper by Jakob Roth, Fabian Schär, Aljoscha Schöpfer
/ 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
/ Research, Blockchain, Publication
Blockchain Forks: A Formal Classification Framework and Persistency Analysis
Research paper by Fabian Schär published in the Singapore Economic Review
/ Research, DeFi, Publication
Stablecoins, Digital Currency, and the Future of Money
Paper by Alexander Lipton, Aetienne Sardon, Fabian Schär and Christian Schüpbach