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Initial Coin Offerings and the Value of Crypto Tokens (2018)

This paper explores how entrepreneurs can use initial coin offerings - whereby they issue crypto tokens and commit to accept only those tokens as payment for their products - to fund venture start…

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28 Aug 2018

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Pricing of Catastrophe Risk and the Implied Volatility Smile (2016)

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Asset Pricing and Extreme Event Risk: Common Factors in ILS Fund Returns (2016)

The returns of investment funds specializing in insurance-linked securities (ILS) exhibit a unique behavior. We introduce a new peril-based factor model, which explains the time-series and cross-…

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