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Valuing cryptocurrencies: Three easy pieces

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This paper surveys the capacity of simple macroeconomic models - 'three easy pieces' - to account for persistent and positive valuations of privately issued assets based on the blockchain. Each of these three models - transactions demand for a means of payment, consumption-based capital asset pricing, and search and matching - highlights important aspects of digital payments. The mutual interference of these jointly produced features may impede widespread use of cryptocurrencies until technological innovations have been developed to separate them.

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  • Burda, Michael C., 2021. "Valuing cryptocurrencies: Three easy pieces," IRTG 1792 Discussion Papers 2021-011, Humboldt University of Berlin, International Research Training Group 1792 "High Dimensional Nonstationary Time Series".
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