Using the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) as an exogenous shock that reduces the tax advantages of offshore funds sold to U.S. investors, we document that affected funds significantly enhance their performance as a response. This effect is stronger for funds domiciled in tax havens...

Classic economic theory asserts that full information transparency entails information symmetry and, thus, market efficiency in trading. We test if this theory still holds in a blockchain-enabled marketplace where full information transparency is accomplished via blockchain. We leverage the data...