The Holy Grail of a decentralised stablecoin is achieved on rigorous mathematical frameworks, obtaining multiple advantageous proofs: stability, convergence, truthfulness, faithfulness, and malicious-security. These properties could only be attained by the novel and interdisciplinary combination...

There is investigated the influence of the determinants - subunit interdependences and knowledge transfer costs, on the level of decentralization and the performance measurement system (PMSs) using as an example a subdivisional unit from the Bulgarian social health and care experience. There is...

In this paper, we present Velocity, a decentralized market deployed on Ethereum for trading a custom type of derivative option. To enable the smart contract to work, we also implement a price fetching tool called PriceGeth. We present this as a case study, noting challenges in development of the...

With the onset of Climate Change as a biggest Challenge in today’s era, energy security and the consequent energy transition has been addressed as issue of concern by all the countries across globe. In the context of conceptualisation of energy security in a 4 A framework defined in terms of...

This paper tries to examine the process of decentralization and district level decentralization program in Amhara regional state. The paper traced out the overview of decentralization process during imperial, derg, and EPRDF regimes. The depth and degree of decentralization in the three...

We present a novel account of China's recent move to decentralize legislation through amending the Law on Legislation (LL). Conventional wisdom pervading both Chinese political discourse and social scientific scholarship on China portrays law as incompatible with experimentation and as only...

An emergent form of blockchain governance involves the use of formal games that give participants incentives to identify focal resolutions to normative questions. This symposium contribution provides a brief survey of the literature proposing and critiquing the use of such mechanisms, and it...

Decentralized finance can be an option of last resort for refugees escaping political and societal collapse. This option can safely store a person's wealth in a way that accumulates interest while preventing governments and banks from seizing it. In addition, there are other applications...

Evidence on the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act suggests that the available work is often rationed by local leaders in poor areas, and that this is an important factor limiting the scheme's impact on poverty. The paper offers explanations for this empirical...