Bitcoin Allocation and Positive Skewness Preferences
Explore how extreme positive skewness and rare-event beliefs drive optimal Bitcoin allocations under higher-moment and behavioral utility models.
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Research review notes
Reviews of the credibility, utility, and implications of research papers. Each current (2026) AI-assisted review uses a two-stage prompt. First, an editorial sweep examines what the paper actually says and extracts core claims. Second, a research review pass creates the raw material for each note. Besides the claims, I also include a bit about how this paper fits into the broader literature, remaining information gaps, and the paper's broader implications.
Bitcoin, Hard Money, and Time Preference
Explore how hard money preserves purchasing power and lowers time preference, and evaluate Bitcoin's role in reversing fiat-driven social decay.
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Blockchain governance as polycentric orders
Explore how blockchain networks function as constitutional & competitive polycentric orders shaped by internal protocols & external market forces
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Limits of legal mandates in digital payment adoption
Explore how legal tender status and subsidies failed to establish Bitcoin as a routine medium of exchange in El Salvador.
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Decoupling vulnerability and resilience post-disaster
Explore how vulnerability and resilience decouple post-disaster, showing poorer households achieve faster relative recovery despite higher damage.
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Data-centric AI governance in public administration
Explore how data-centric MLOps and human oversight operationalize responsible AI governance and public value in a European public administration.
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Cryptocurrency unit-of-account diagnostics
Explore a reconceptualized unit-of-account function to assess whether digital tokens can denominate economic commitments independently
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ChatGPT productivity effects on professional writing
Explore how ChatGPT access reshapes writing tasks, compressing performance inequality via effort substitution rather than skill complementarity.
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Bitcoin Futures and Spot-Market Price Alignment
Explore how regulated Bitcoin futures improved cross-exchange spot-price alignment by bypassing physical transfer and short-sale frictions.
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Taming wildcat stablecoins: a review note
Explore how Gorton and Zhang frame stablecoins as unregulated banks prone to runs, requiring sovereign backing or CBDC intervention.
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Bitcoin Diversification and DCC-GARCH Portfolio Hedging
Explore how a DCC-GARCH model maps Bitcoin's low dynamic conditional correlations with global industry sectors and bonds for portfolio hedging.
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Early computers and the direction of science
Explore how early digital computers redirected U.S. university research by relaxing computational constraints in numerically intensive fields.
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