Work in Decentralization and the Digital Economy
Platforming research
The Institute provides a platform for affiliated researchers to share their work on decentralization and the the digital economy: the institute makes no assertion of the quality or correctness of posted papers.
| Date | Author | Title |
| Oct 2022 | Richard Holden, Anup Malani | The Law and Economics of Blockchain [paper] |
| Aug 2022 | Adrien d’Avernas, Vincent Maurin, Quentin Vandeweyer | Can Stablecoins be Stable? [paper] |
| Aug 2022 | Automated Market Making and Loss-Versus-Rebalancing [paper] | |
| Jul 2022 | Harald Uhlig | A Luna-tic Stablecoin Crash [paper] |
| Jun 2022 | Eric Budish | The Economic Limits of Bitcoin and Anonymous, Decentralized Trust on the Blockchain [paper] |
| May 2022 | Cryptocurrencies, Currency Competition, and the Impossible Trinity [paper] | |
| Apr 2022 | Fernando Alvarez, David Argenta, Diana Van Patten | Are Cryptocurrencies Currencies? Bitcoin as Legal Tender in El Salvador [paper] |
| Mar 2022 | Richard Holden, Anup Malani | An Examination of Velocity and Initial Coin Offerings [paper] |
| Jan 2022 | Fernando Alvarez, David Argente, Rafael Jimenez, Francesco Lippi | Cash: A Blessing or a curse? [paper] |
| Jan 2022 | Erik Aronesty, David Cash, Yevgeniy Dodis, Daniel H. Gallancy, Christopher Higley, Harish Karthikeyan, and Oren Tysor | Encapsulated Search Index: Public-Key, Sub-linear, Distributed, and Delegatable [paper] |
| Nov 2021 | Richard Holden, Anup Malani | Can Blockchain Solve the Hold-Up Problem in Contracts? [book] |
| Nov 2021 | Gur Huberman, Jacob Leshno, Ciamac Moallemi | Monopoly without a Monopolist: An Economic Analysis of the Bitcoin Payment System [paper] |
| Nov 2021 | Hanna Halaburda, Zhiguo He, Jiasun Li | An Economic Model of Consensus on Distributed Ledgers [paper] |
| Oct 2021 | Gina Pieters | Digital Currencies and Central Banks [book chapter] |
| Aug 2021 | Min Xu, Armin Namavari, David Cash, Thomas Ristenpart | Searching Encrypted Data with Size-Locked Indexes [paper] |
| Aug 2021 | David Cash, Ruth Ng, and Adam Rivkin |
Improved Structured Encryption for SQL Databases via Hybrid Indexing [paper] |
| Jul 2021 | Central Bank Digital Currency: Central Banking for All? [paper] | |
| Mar 2021 | Gina Pieters, Sean Stein Smith | Private and Hybrid Blockchains and Applications [book chapter] |
| Jan 2021 | Jacob Leshno, Bary S.R. Pradelski | The Importance of Memory for Price Discovery in Decentralized Markets [paper] |
| Dec 2020 | Harald Uhlig, Taojun Xie | Parallel Digital Currencies and Sticky Prices [paper] |
| Dec 2020 | Central Bank Digital Currency: When Price and Bank Stability Collide [paper] | |
| Nov 2020 | Fernando Alvarez, David Argente | On the Effects of Availability of Means of Payments: The Case of Uber [paper] |
| Nov 2020 | Francesca Falzon, Evangelia Anna Markatou, Akshima, David Cash, Adam Rivkin, Jesse Stern, Roberto Tamassia |
Full Database Reconstruction in Two Dimensions [paper] |
| Sep 2020 | Jacob Leshno, Philipp Strack | Bitcoin: An Axiomatic Approach and an Impossibility Theorem [paper] |
| Sep 2020 | Apolline Blandin, Gina Pieters, Yue Wu, Thomas Eisermann, Anton Dek, Sean Taylor, Damaris Njoki | 3rd Global Cryptoasset Benchmarking Study [report] |
| Jun 2020 | Akshima, David Cash, Andrew Drucker, Hoeteck Wee |
Time-Space Tradeoffs and Short Collisions in Merkle-Damgård Hash Functions [paper] |
| Jun 2020 | Mattia Landoni, Gina Pieters | Taxing Blockchain Forks [paper] |
| Apr 2020 | Lin William Cong, Zhiguo He, Jiasun Li | Decentralized Mining in Centralized Pools [paper] |
| Dec 2019 | Michel Rauchs, Andrew Glidden, Brian Gordon, Gina Pieters, Martino Recantini, Rancois Rostand, Kathryn Vagneur, Bryan Zheng Zhang | Distributed Ledger Technology Systems: A Conceptual Framework [report] |
| Oct 2019 | Some Simple Bitcoin Economics [paper] | |
| May 2019 | Alex Liu, Amanda Nakanishi, Maximilian Golla, David Cash, Blase Ur | Reasoning Analytically About Password-Cracking Software [paper] |
| May 2019 | Linda Schilling, Harald Uhlig | Currency Substitution under Transaction costs [paper] |
| Apr 2019 | Lin William Cong, Zhiguo He | Blockchain Disruption and Smart Contracts [paper] |
| Dec 2018 | Michel Rauchs, Apolline Blandin, Kristina Klein, Gina Pieters, Martino Recanatini, Bryan Zhang | 2nd Global Cryptoasset Benchmarking Study [report] |
| Feb 2018 | David Cash, Cong Zhang |
A Ciphertext-Size Lower Bound for Order-Preserving Encryption with Limited Leakage [paper] |
| Jun 2018 | David Cash, Feng-Hao Liu, Adam O’Neill, Mark Zhandry, Cong Zhang |
Parameter-Hiding Order Revealing Encryption [paper] |
| Oct 2017 | Vincent Bindschaedler, Paul Grubbs, David Cash, Thomas Ristenpart, Vitaly Shmatikov |
The Tao of Inference in Privacy-Protected Databases [paper] |
| Jun 2017 | Gina Pieters, Sofia Vivanco | Financial Regulations and Price Inconsistencies Across Bitcoin Markets [paper] |
| Jun 2017 | Benedikt Auerbach, David Cash, Manuel Fersch, Eike Kiltz |
Memory-Tight Reductions [paper] |
| May 2017 | Liang Wang, Paul Grubbs, Jiahui Lu, Vincent Bindschaedler, David Cash, Thomas Ristenpart |
Side-Channel Attacks on Shared Search Indexes [paper] |
| Dec 2016 | Gina Pieters | Does Bitcoin Reveal New Information About Exchange Rates and Financial Integration? [paper] |
| Dec 2016 | Eike Kiltz, Krzysztof Pietrzak, David Cash, Abhishek Jain, Daniele Venturi |
Efficient Authentication from Hard Learning Problems [paper] |
| July 2016 | F. Betül Durak, Thomas M. DuBuisson, David Cash |
What Else is Revealed by Order-Revealing Encryption? [paper] |
| June 2016 | Zvika Brakerski, David Cash, Rotem Tsabary, Hoeteck Wee |
Targeted Homomorphic Attribute Based Encryption [paper] |
| Jul 2016 | David Cash, Paul Grubbs, Jason Perry, Thomas Ristenpart |
Leakage-Abuse Attacks Against Searchable Encryption [paper] |
| Dec 2015 | David Cash, Eike Kiltz, Stefano Tessaro |
Two-Round Man-in-the-Middle Security from LPN [paper] |
| Mar 2015 | David Cash, Rafael Dowsley, Eike Kiltz |
Digital Signatures from Strong RSA without Prime Generation [paper] |
| Apr 2014 | David Cash, Stefano Tessaro |
The Locality of Searchable Symmetric Encryption [paper] |
| Aug 2014 | David Cash, Joseph Jaeger, Stanislaw Jarecki, Charanjit Jutla, Hugo Krawczyk, Marcel Rosu, Michael Steiner |
Dynamic Searchable Encryption in Very-Large Databases: Data Structures and Implementation [paper] |
| Jan 2013 | David Cash, Stanislaw Jarecki, Charanjit Jutla, Hugo Krawczyk, Marcel Rosu, Michael Steiner |
Highly-Scalable Searchable Symmetric Encryption with Support for Boolean Queries [paper] |
| May 2012 | David Cash, Alptekin Küpçü, Daniel Wichs |
Dynamic Proofs of Retrievability via Oblivious RAM [paper] |
| Feb 2011 | Mihir Bellare, David Cash, Rachel Miller |
Cryptography Secure Against Related-Key Attack [paper] |
| Apr 2011 | Mihir Bellare, David Cash, Sriram Keelveedhi |
Ciphers that Securely Encipher their own Keys [paper] |
| Mar 2010 | David Cash, Dennis Hofheinz, Eike Kiltz, Chris Peikert |
Bonsai Trees, or How to Delegate a Lattice Basis [paper] |
| Mar 2010 | Mihir Bellare, David Cash |
Pseudorandom Functions and Permutations Provably Secure Against Related-Key Attacks [paper] |
| Jan 2010 | David Cash, Matthew Green, Susan Hohenberger |
New Definitions and Separations for Circular Security [paper] |
| Jan 2010 | Tolga Acar, Mira Belenkiy, Mihir Bellare, David Cash | Cryptographic Agility and Its Relation to Circular Encryption [paper] |
| Feb 2009 | Alexandra Boldyreva, David Cash, Marc Fischlin, and Bogdan Warinschi |
Foundations of Non-Malleable Hash and One-Way Functions [paper] |