Digital Assets

Reena Aggarwal is Robert E. McDonough Professor of Finance and Director, Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. She specializes in global financial markets, ETFs, IPOs, institutional investors, private equity, FinTech, and ESG. She has received several research awards including the 2015 BlackRock-National Association of Corporate Directors Global Challenge for innovation in Corporate Governance Award. Paolo Tasca is the founder and Executive Director of the Centre for Blockchain Technologies at University College London (UCL CBT). He specialised in P2P financial systems and has advised different international organisations on blockchain technologies including the EU Parliament, the United Nations and several Central Banks.

• Part I. Institutionalization of Digital Assets: 1. Institutionalization of digital assets Reena Aggarwal and Chris Matturri; 2. How and when are cryptocurrency predictable? Back-testing their portfolio economic value Massimo Guidolin and Manuela Pedio; 3. DeFi vs TradFi: valuation using multiples and discounted cash flows Teng Andrea Xu, Jiahua Xu and Kristof Lommers; Part II. Digital Assets and Decentralised Finance: 4. The suitability of securities token offerings, cryptocurrencies, and crypto-related assets for pension investments John A. Turner; 5. Regulatory considerations on the decentralised financial system Ryosuke Ushida and Shin'ichiro Matsuo; 6. A hayekian view of digital currencies Andy Yee and Nikhil Vadgama; Part III. Regulations and Compliance of Digital Assets: 7. Call for a global cryptoassets regulatory framework: lessons from the US, Europe, and the UK Giovanna Massarotto; 8. Privacy coins and the reasonable expectation of privacy: evaluating the efficacy of national security letters Wanjiku Karanja; 9. UK anti-money laundering regulation of cryptoassets Pierre Ostercamp; 10. Triple-entry accounting, blockchain and next of kin: towards a stan-dardization of ledger terminology Juan Ignacio Ibanez, Chris N. Bayer, Paolo Tasca and Jiahua Xu; Part IV. Cryptocurrency Economics and Monetary Policies: 11. Monetary policy in a world with cryptocurrencies, stablecoins and CBDC Daniel Heller; 12. Yields: the galapagos syndrome of cryptofinance Bernhard K. Meister and Henry C. W. Price; 13. The 'klair effect': a new monetary framework on controlling inflation using CBDC Sarbjit Klair.