This study investigates whether investors' overreactions to blockchain-related announcements is driven by corporate executive opportunism in the Chinese capital market. We manually collect blockchain-related announcements made by Chinese listed firms over 2016–2022 and conduct an event study...

This paper provides an overview of the distributed ledger technology (DLT) options available to central banks for issuing central bank digital currency (CBDC). We discuss the main requirements that a DLT solution must fulfill and analyze the various structures for implementation offered by DLT -...

The purpose of the study was to identify the factors that influence senior management for adopting blockchain technology in the banking industry in general and Islamic banking in particular. Furthermore, the research addressed the moderating role of technological turbulence as it holds a...

In the FinTech era, we contribute to the literature by studying the pricing of Bitcoin options, which is timely and important given that both Nasdaq and the CME Group have started to launch a variety of Bitcoin derivatives. We fnd pricing errors in the presence of market smiles in Bitcoin...

This study examines the nexus between the good and bad volatilities of three technological revolutions-fnancial technology (FinTech), the Internet of Things, and artifcial intelligence and technology-as well as the two main conventional and Islamic cryptocurrency platforms, Bitcoin and Stellar,...

In the blockchain world, proof-of-work is the dominant protocol mechanism that determines the consensus of the ledger. The hashrate, a measure of the computational power directed toward securing a blockchain through proof-of-work consensus, is a fundamental measure of preventing various attacks....