By Andrea Bianconi While Bloomberg has celebrated the best decade in history for financial returns, it is not a coincidence that wealth inequality has reached proportions not seen since the roaring twenties. And while this does not seem to concern the financial elites — who celebrated another fat end of the year — this is, in reality, a major […]
By Philipp Sandner, Jonas Gross, Marcel Kaiser, Simon Seiter After 2019, where Bitcoin showed enormous volatility, where companies started to gain more interest in blockchain, where capital markets were envisioned to run on DLT systems, where the Ethereum-centered Decentralized Finance (DeFi) ecosystem grew, we wondered about trends for 2020. From the perspective of Germany, what […]
A Blockchain-based model to reverse dysfunctional privatizations By Andrea Bianconi When I wrote this article about the dramatic collapse of the Morandi Highway Bridge in Genoa, I did it out of anger. Though it was clear to me that the roots of this tragic event were to be found in the wrong privatization model and its wrong incentives, I […]
