The economics of cryptocurrency pump and dump schemes
The digital currency bitcoin (BTC) was introduced in 2009. Bitcoin and the many other digital currencies are primarily online currencies. The key currencies are those based primarily on cryptography. Bitcoin…
Leverage, financial shocks, and firm growth in the US
There is an extensive literature studying the growth and employment dynamics of US firms over their life-cycle (for one of the early papers on the topic, see Davis et al. 1996).…
Retail investors are not noise traders
Much of the literature on investments and investor types labels individual or retail investors as ignorant, uninformed, and trading on noise and sentiment, while viewing institutional investors as sophisticated and…
Inequality in the joint distribution of consumption and time use
analyses of economic wellbeing rely almost exclusively on wage or income data. Though measures of income are readily available from many data sources, recent studies have emphasised that consumption is…
Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano, a high-tech architect, was born in a family of builders in Italy, in 1937. At a very young age he got the chance to get familiar to the…
Banking integration in the EMU: Let’s get real!
As the euro approaches its 20th birthday, it has been a catalyst for banking integration among its members, but this integration has remained incomplete. The euro has created an integrated…
Mario Botta
Mario Botta is celebrated contemporary Swiss architect, best known from manipulating the cultural and natural elements of a landscape to create a breathtakingly beautiful sight. Most of his work has…
Charles Moore
Charles Moore was the wizard who led us out of the sterility and self-importance of Modernism and showed us that we could go home again Charles Moore, the Oberon, Merry…
Masterpieces of Robert Venturi, a postmodern architecture icon
Robert Venturi’s passing yesterday at age 93 bookends the life of an extraordinarily influential architect and scholar. Working in tandem with his partner and wife Denise Scott Brown, he helped not only create…
postmodernism and perspectives
Introduction The conception of Postmodernism is a movement in culture, philosophy, art and many other things. There are different ways to use this term at different times, but still there…
