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Can Blockchain Solve the Hold-Up Problem for Shared Databases?

Why enterprises will lead in the $3.1 trillion value capture that technology will create by 2030

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Blockchain Upgrade as a Coordination Game

Widely-used governance systems may not perform well in blockchain settings due to the possibility of hard forks

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Economics of Tokenized Incentives Series

The principles of incentive design for blockchain platforms to influence the behavior of system participants

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Asset-Backed Security Tokens

What you can learn from the economics of property rights about claims, ownership and governance

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Economics is the Study of Choice

Prysm Group is an economic consulting firm specialized in distributed ledger and blockchain technology

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Featured Insights

Experimenting with Blockchain for Government Transparency in Colombia

Prysm Group Founding Economists Dr. Cathy Barrera and Dr. Stephanie Hurder discuss the potential impact of the World Economic Forum blockchain pilot.

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Trending Topics

Dr. Barrera explains key findings from Prof. Catalini and Prof. Gans' research paper on the value of tokens.

July 3, 2018

A large variety of projects are beginning to offer new classes of financial instruments in the form of asset-backed security tokens.

September 25, 2018

Many blockchain platforms attempt to crowdsource activities and resources by creating pay-for-performance systems.

January 17, 2019
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Dr. Cathy Barrera

Dr. Cathy Barrera holds a PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University. She is a keynote speaker and lecturer on economics and DLT and an advisor to blockchain projects at the World Economic Forum.
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Dr. Stephanie Hurder

Dr. Stephanie Hurder holds a PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University. She is a frequent keynote speaker and lecturer on economics and DLT and an advisor to blockchain projects at the World Economic Forum, a Visiting Scholar at the CCI at USC.

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Prof. Oliver Hart

Prof. Oliver Hart is the Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1993. He holds a PhD in Economics from Princeton University and is the 2016 co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.

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Dr. Preston McAfee

Dr. Preston McAfee most recently served as the Chief Economist of Microsoft from 2014 through 2018. He holds a PhD in Economics from Purdue University and is the co-recipient of a Golden Goose award in 2014 for his research on auction design.

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Dr. Cathy Barrera

Dr. Cathy Barrera holds a PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University. She is a keynote speaker and lecturer on economics and DLT and an advisor to blockchain projects at the World Economic Forum.

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Dr. Stephanie Hurder

Dr. Stephanie Hurder holds a PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University. She is a frequent keynote speaker and lecturer on economics and DLT and an advisor to blockchain projects at the World Economic Forum, a Visiting Scholar at the CCI at USC.

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Prof. Oliver Hart

Prof. Oliver Hart is the Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1993. He holds a PhD in Economics from Princeton University and is the 2016 co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.

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Dr. Preston McAfee

Dr. Preston McAfee most recently served as the Chief Economist of Microsoft from 2014 through 2018. He holds a PhD in Economics from Purdue University and is the co-recipient of a Golden Goose award in 2014 for his research on auction design.

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22
Aug

DappCon 2019 - Governance Design for Positive Stakeholder Engagement During Platform Upgrades

Prysm Group's Dr. Stephanie Hurder joins Berlin Blockchain week at DappCon to discuss research on designing governance to create positive stakeholder engagement and preventing hard forks during platform upgrades.

22
Aug

DappCon 2019 - Governance Design Panel

Prysm Group's Dr. Stephanie Hurder joins Berlin Blockchain week at DappCon for a panel on Blockchain Governance design alongside Jorge Izquierdo (CTO, Aragon) and Ameen Soleimani (Co-Founder, Moloch DAO), moderated by Sunny Aggarwal (Core Developer, Cosmos-Tendermint).

15
Oct

ConVerge2Xcelerate - Blockchain in Healthcare

Prysm Group's Dr. Cathy Barrera joins ConV2X to deliver a panel with Dr. Mazin Gadir of Dubai Health Authority to discuss challenges and opportunities of creating blockchain solutions in the healthcare sector.

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