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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Transaction Fees"”.
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Three Essays on Futures Markets
… relationship between optimal hedge ratios and transaction fees under different market conditions (spot returns). In essay three, we extend the study by Working (1962) and examine the sensitivity of optimal hedging ratios to heterogeneous expectations. The empirical results in both papers …
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The Economics of Cryptocurrencies
… an introduction. The second chapter studies the transaction fees in the bitcoin system. The transaction fees and transaction volume in the bitcoin system increase whenever the network is congested and results from a simple VAR show that it is indeed the case. To account for the empirical …
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Mitigating Undercutting Attacks: A Study on Mining and Transaction Fee Behavior
… revenue will become increasingly reliant on transaction fees. However, these transaction fees are highly variable, which could result in undercutting attacks occurring. Undercutting attacks are when miners intentionally fork the blockchain in an attempt to steal transactions from an …
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Analyzing M&A: The Effects of Institutional Investor Cross Ownership
… cross-ownership between two firms increases transaction fees, reduces deal premiums, and lowers cash consideration in deals. Firms with greater analyst following and cross ownership as a percentage of total institutional ownership pay less fees, lower deal premiums, and less cash …
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ARBITRAGE STRATEGIES IN PERPETUAL FUTURES AND STOCK INDEX FUTURES
… bounds that persist even in the absence of transaction fees. Using two years of Binance data, we empirically confirm the validity of these model-free bounds. The second part studies arbitrage strategies in stock index futures under a reinforcement learning (RL) framework. We formulate the …
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Towards the Development of Cost-Effective Decentralized Applications: An Investigation of Transaction Processing Times on the Ethereum Blockchain Platform
… application into one or more smart contract transactions. These transactions target specific smart contract functions, and execute once the transactions are processed by other nodes in the network. Developers also need to pay for these transactions, and thus for their code to be executed. …
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Bitcoin adoption in South Africa, an end user perspective
… has shown significant benefits such as lower transaction fees. The already prevalent use of mobile money in developing countries may aid Bitcoin's adoption. Mobile banking functions such as sending international remittances could easily be replaced by using a Bitcoin wallet, which offers much …
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Essays on financial economics
… if the agent faces a vast set of assets or when transaction fees are considerable, it becomes optimal for the agent to take non-zero positions on only a subset of the available assets. Thus, in chapter 2, I present a portfolio construction procedure for this context using Li penalized quantile …
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Resilient payment systems
… contacting centralised systems to process every transaction. Our secondary goal is to minimise the cost of providing payment systems, so providers can cut transaction fees. Moreover, by decentralising payment verification that can be performed offline, we increase system resilience, and …
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Future of Payment Platforms
… the United States, many of which include large transaction fees. Many new businesses have grown to solve these inefficiencies and create a new platform that provides a new user experience, security, and convenience among many other things. However, many of these platforms are still centralized, …
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Essays on Corporate Finance and Financial Markets
… that trade at market close have incurred high transaction fees charged by the primary exchanges. Investment banks undercut the exchanges by executing client orders at close prices set on the exchanges yet charging lower fees. While providing liquidity, banks trade on the order flow information. …