Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Technology / Shaen Corbet, Andrew Urquhart, Larisa Yarovaya.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Corbet, Shaen, Editor.

Urquhart, Andrew, Editor.

Yarovaya, Larisa, Editor.

Series:

Batten-Corbet-Lucey Handbooks in Alternative Investments ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cryptocurrencies.

Blockchains (Databases).

Banks and banking--Technological innovations.

Banks and banking.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (VI, 196 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This handbook will provide a comprehensive treatment of the gamut of issues and challenges that exist through the development of both cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. This will not be confined to simply the investment potential within these new technological areas. We will examine the challenges in the regulatory, legal, taxation, accounting, modelling, ethical, macroeconomic impact and internationalization issues. Research on cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology has identified issues such as pricing abnormalities and bubble-like behavior, indicating that these new assets are highly speculative in nature, contain a growing number of legal abnormalities (such as the hacking of exchanges and broad theft of investor assets) and a growing number of significant regulatory issues. It is paramount that we investigate each of these issues in great detail to help to determine whether cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology merits consideration as a sustainable alternative investment asset. The handbook will be useful for specialist technical audiences such as legal, accounting and financial practices. It will also be beneficial for upper level masters and research students in economics, law, accounting, taxation, investment and portfolio management.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction to cryptocurrencies

Blockchain and economic transactions

An analysis of the development of cryptocurrency research

Financial characteristics of cryptocurrencies

The predictability between Bitcoin and US technology stock returns: Granger causality in mean, variance, and quantile

Market structure of cryptocurrencies

The Wild West of ICOs

The ethical and legal aspects of blockchain technology and cryptoassets

The environmental effects of cryptocurrencies

Evaluating a decade of cryptocurrency development: Navigating financial progress through technological and regulatory ambiguity

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2020)

ISBN:

9783110659528

3110659522

OCLC:

1191863872