Blockchain technologies are beginning to push a broad array of global economic activities away from centralized and toward decentralized market structures. Governments should tackle the new regulatory conundrums of an increasingly disintermediated global economy by focusing on blockchain's...

Whereas blockchain technologies offer various important benefits for securities exchanges, until now their adoption has not been forthcoming. However, the recent statement of the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) provides an example of the potential for future integration of blockchain...

Blockchain technology has great potential to revolutionize healthcare data management. The technology is sufficiently complex, however, making it essential that a large number of people with a broad range of skills will be required to implement the technology. Innovation clusters will be the...

Healthcare complexity and costs can be decreased through the application of blockchain technology to medical records and insurance companies. Estonia has taken a leadership role in blockchain based services both in the commercial sector and in government. The Estonian government's innovation...

The paper focuses on various legal-related aspects of the application of blockchain technologies in the copyright sphere. Specifically, it outlines the existing challenges for distribution of copyrighted works in the digital environment, how they can be solved with blockchain, and what...

Blockchains are the distributed, decentralised ledger technology underlying Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. We apply Oliver Williamson's transactions cost analysis to the blockchain consensus mechanism. Blockchains reduce the costs of opportunism but are not “trustless”. We show that...

This paper is intended to contribute to the debate on blockchain's financial regulation. First and foremost, it provides through the example of securities law an introductory overview of how American and French legal systems fail to properly handle the existing reality of blockchain. It...

Financial technology (FinTech) innovations have the potential to reduce transaction costs. More specifically, blockchain and “smart contracts” aim at decreasing monitoring and enforcement costs (i.e. the “costs of trust”). Thus, blockchain and “smart contracts” can free financial...