Australian Government Looks to Blockchain for Trade Modernization
Australia's Department of Home Affairs is touting blockchain technology in a push to modernize the country's international trade supply chains.
View ArticleKODAKCoin Fundraising to Begin Later This Month
Imaging giant Kodak is now looking at May 21 for the SAFT offering of its KODAKCoin for accredited investors.
View Article'Ebay for CryptoKitties' Raises $2 Million from All-Star VCs
The number of crypto collectables, like CryptoKitties, is growing and investors think a marketplace for their trade is a good bet.
View ArticleBlockstack Fund to Give Crypto Social Networks $1 Million Boost
Decentralized web developer Blockstack has set aside $1 million in grants to fund distributed social networking projects.
View ArticleThis Blockchain Tosses Blocks: Naval, MetaStable Back Twist on Crypto 'Cash'
A new blockchain startup is coming out of stealth Wednesday and boasting a significant cast of investors.
View Article$363 Million: Robinhood Raises Big to Build 'Largest Crypto Platform'
Stock trading app Robinhood has announced a $363 million Series D funding round and plans to expand its crypto trading service across the U.S.
View ArticleCrypto Is the 'People's Revolution,' Says Investor Mike Novogratz
Michael Novogratz of Galaxy Digital doesn't think institutional custody of crypto assets can happen soon enough.
View ArticleMaking Sure People Recognize Their Impact
Adam Bryant, formerly of the New York Times, interviewed Deborah Bothun recently and posted her comments on LinkedIn.  Bothun spent 21 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers. The two now owrk together at...
View ArticleRapper Mims to Promote 'Tune' Token for Artists
Award-winning rapper Mims is to talk about his new artist-focused blockchain project, and perform, at a crypto event this month.
View ArticleBitcoin Developers Build Prototype for 'Dandelion' Privacy Tool
Developers have proposed testing the Dandelion privacy mechanism on large number of active nodes.
View ArticleWalmart Patent Envisions Blockchain-Powered Delivery Fleets
A patent application submitted by Walmart proposes to use autonomous vehicles with a blockchain-based authentication system for package delivery.
View ArticleRipple: XRP Payment Pilots Cut Fees by 40-70 Percent
Ripple's xRapid pilot program results found that customers saved both money and time when compared to traditional cross-border transactions.
View ArticleLykke Launches Blockchain Accelerator and Venture Capital 'Spin-Off'
Crypto exchange Lykke has started a combined accelerator and venture firm focused on blockchain ventures with two former IBM and UBS executives.
View ArticleCorporate Tax Cuts Increase Income Inequality -- by Suresh Nallareddy, Ethan...
This paper studies the effects of corporate tax changes on income inequality. Using state corporate tax rate changes as a setting, we show that cutting state corporate tax rates leads to increases in...
View ArticleInference in Structural Vector Autoregressions When the Identifying...
Reporting point estimates and error bands for structural vector autoregressions that are only set identified is a very common practice. However, unless the researcher is persuaded on the basis of prior...
View ArticleDoes Investment in National Highways Help or Hurt Hinterland City Growth? --...
We investigate the effects of the recently constructed Chinese national highway system on local economic outcomes. On average, roads that improve access to local markets have small or negative effects...
View ArticleDeveloping Novel Drugs -- by Joshua L. Krieger, Danielle Li, Dimitris...
We analyze the economic tradeoffs associated with firms' decisions to invest in incremental and radical innovation, in the context of pharmaceutical research and development. We develop a new, ex ante,...
View ArticleSafety Net Investments in Children -- by Hilary W. Hoynes, Diane Whitmore...
In this paper, we examine what groups of children are served by core childhood social-safety net programs--including Medicaid, EITC, CTC, SNAP, and AFDC/TANF--and how that's changed over time. We find...
View ArticleThe Recent Rise of Labor Force Participation of Older Workers in Sweden -- by...
This paper studies the background to the increase in labor force participation of older workers in Sweden since 2000. In the first part, we study how the characteristics of the elderly have changed...
View ArticleHow Happy are Your Neighbours? Variation in Life Satisfaction among 1200...
This paper presents a new public-use dataset for community-level life satisfaction in Canada, based on more than 400,000 observations from the Canadian Community Health Surveys and the General Social...
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