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Crypto and Blockchain Economics Literature Catalog

This is a catalog of all published blockchain papers in top business and economics journals. We thank Baikun Leng for compiling the original dataset. If you are aware of papers that we have missed which are published in the included journals, please email contact@cber-forum.org with details. 

OM Forum—Distributed Ledgers and Operations: What Operations Management Researchers Should Know About Blockchain Technology

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

Volodymyr Babich, Gilles Hilary

Date of Acceptance:

2018

From mining to markets: The evolution of bitcoin transaction fees

Journal of Financial Economics

David Easley, Maureen O'Hara, Soumya Basu

Date of Acceptance:

2018

Blockchain-Based Settlement for Asset Trading

Review of Financial Studies

Jonathan Chiu, Thorsten V Koeppl

Date of Acceptance:

2019

Is Bitcoin Really Untethered?

Journal of Finance

John M. Griffin, Amin Shams

Date of Acceptance:

2019

The Blockchain Folk Theorem

Review of Financial Studies

Bruno Biais, Christophe Bisière, Matthieu Bouvard, Catherine Casamatta

Date of Acceptance:

2019

Token-Weighted Crowdsourcing

Management Science

Gerry Tsoukalas, Brett Hemenway Falk

Date of Acceptance:

2019

Blockchain Disruption and Smart Contracts

Review of Financial Studies

Lin William Cong, Zhiguo He

Date of Acceptance:

2019

Riding the Blockchain Mania: Public Firms' Speculative 8-K Disclosures

Management Science

Stephanie F. Cheng, Gus De Franco, Haibo Jiang, Pengkai Lin

Date of Acceptance:

2019

How Valuable Is FinTech Innovation?

Review of Financial Studies

Mark A Chen, Qinxi Wu, Baozhong Yang

Date of Acceptance:

2019

Trading and arbitrage in cryptocurrency markets

Journal of Financial Economics

Igor Makarov, Antoinette Schoar

Date of Acceptance:

2019

On the Financing Benefits of Supply Chain Transparency and Blockchain Adoption

Management Science

Jiri Chod, Nikolaos Trichakis, Gerry Tsoukalas, Henry Aspegren, Mark Weber

Date of Acceptance:

2019

Industry 4.0: Opportunities and Challenges for Operations Management

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

Tava Lennon Olsen, Brian Tomlin

Date of Acceptance:

2019

Decentralized Mining in Centralized Pools

Review of Financial Studies

Lin William Cong, Zhiguo He, Jiasun Li

Date of Acceptance:

2020

Tokenomics: Dynamic Adoption and Valuation

Review of Financial Studies

Lin William Cong, Ye Li, Neng Wang

Date of Acceptance:

2020

Ransomware activity and blockchain congestion

Journal of Financial Economics

Konstantin Sokolov

Date of Acceptance:

2020

Risks and Returns of Cryptocurrency

Review of Financial Studies

Yukun Liu, Aleh Tsyvinski

Date of Acceptance:

2020

Blockchain without Waste: Proof-of-Stake

Review of Financial Studies

Fahad Saleh

Date of Acceptance:

2020

Initial Coin Offerings, Speculation, and Asset Tokenization

Management Science

Jingxing (Rowena) Gan, Gerry Tsoukalas, Serguei Netessine

Date of Acceptance:

2020

Fractional Equity, Blockchain, and the Future of Creative Work

Management Science

Amy Whitaker, Roman Kräussl

Date of Acceptance:

2020

Cryptocurrency Adoption with Speculative Price Bubbles

Marketing Science

Yanhao (Max) Wei, Anthony Dukes

Date of Acceptance:

2020

Blockchain Adoption for Combating Deceptive Counterfeits

Production and Operations Management

Hubert Pun, Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Pengwen Hou

Date of Acceptance:

2020

Optimal financing with tokens

Journal of Financial Economics

Sebastian Gryglewicz, Simon Mayer, Erwan Morellec

Date of Acceptance:

2020

Blockchain Governance—A New Way of Organizing Collaborations?

Organization Science

Fabrice Lumineau, Wenqian Wang, Oliver Schilke

Date of Acceptance:

2020

A Theory of ICOs: Diversification, Agency, and Information Asymmetry

Management Science

Jiri Chod, Evgeny Lyandres

Date of Acceptance:

2020

Evolution of Shares in a Proof-of-Stake Cryptocurrency

Management Science

Ioanid Rosu, Fahad Saleh

Date of Acceptance:

2020

Initial Coin Offerings: Financing Growth with Cryptocurrency Token Sales

Review of Financial Studies

Sabrina T Howell, Marina Niessner, David Yermack

Date of Acceptance:

2020

Privacy as a Public Good: A Case for Electronic Cash

Journal of Political Economy

Rodney J. Garratt, Maarten R. C. van Oordt

Date of Acceptance:

2021

Platform Tokenization: Financing, Governance, and Moral Hazard

Management Science

Jiri Chod, Nikolaos Trichakis, S. Alex Yang

Date of Acceptance:

2021

The Role of Disclosure and Information Intermediaries in an Unregulated Capital Market: Evidence from Initial Coin Offerings

Journal of Accounting Research

Thomas Bourveau, Emmanuel T. De George, Atif Ellahie, Daniele Macciocchi

Date of Acceptance:

2021

FinTech as a Game Changer: Overview of Research Frontiers

Information Systems Research

Terrence Hendershotta, Xiaoquan (Michael) Zhangb, J. Leon Zhaoc, Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng

Date of Acceptance:

2021

Why Bitcoin Will Fail to Scale?

Management Science

Nikhil Malik, Manmohan Aseri, Param Vir Singh, Kannan Srinivasan

Date of Acceptance:

2021

Initial Coin Offering (ICO) Success and Post-ICO Performance

Management Science

Evgeny Lyandres, Berardino Palazzo, Daniel Rabetti

Date of Acceptance:

2021

Decentralizing Money: Bitcoin Prices and Blockchain Security

Review of Financial Studies

Emiliano S Pagnotta

Date of Acceptance:

2021

An Equilibrium Model of the Market for Bitcoin Mining

Journal of Political Economy

Julien Prat, Benjamin Walter

Date of Acceptance:

2021

Informational Challenges in Omnichannel Marketing: Remedies and Future Research

Journal of Marketing

Tony Haitao Cui, Anindya Ghose, Hanna Halaburda, Raghuram Iyengar, Koen Pauwels, S. Sriram, Catherine Tucker, Sriraman Venkataraman

Date of Acceptance:

2021

When Blockchain Creates Shareholder Value: Empirical Evidence from International Firm Announcements

Production and Operations Management

Maximilian Klockner, Christoph G. Schmidt, Stephan M. Wagner

Date of Acceptance:

2021

On the Profitability of Selfish Blockchain Mining Under Consideration of Ruin

Operations Research

Hansjoerg Albrecher, Pierre-Olivier Goffard

Date of Acceptance:

2021

Discursive Fields and the Diversity-Coherence Paradox: An Ecological Perspective on the Blockchain Community Discourse

MIS Quarterly

Shaila M. Miranda, Dawei (David) Wang, Chuan (Annie) Tian

Date of Acceptance:

2021

Stability of Transaction Fees in Bitcoin: A Supply and Demand Perspective

MIS Quarterly

Noyan Ilk, Guangzhi Shang, Shaokun Fan, J. Leon Zhao

Date of Acceptance:

2021

Bitcoin: A Natural Oligopoly

Management Science

Nick Arnosti, S. Matthew Weinberg

Date of Acceptance:

2021

Implications of blockchain-powered marketplace of preowned virtual goods

Production and Operations Management

Yinliang (Ricky) Tan

Date of Acceptance:

2021

Token-based platform finance

Journal of Financial Economics

Lin William Cong, Ye Li, Neng Wang

Date of Acceptance:

2021

Monopoly without a Monopolist: An Economic Analysis of the Bitcoin Payment System

Review of Economic Studies

Gur Huberman, Jacob D Leshno, Ciamac Moallemi

Date of Acceptance:

2021

Dynamic Trade Finance in the Presence of Information Frictions and FinTech

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

Hau Lee, Christopher Tang, S. Alex Yang, Yuxuan Zhang

Date of Acceptance:

2022

Should Central Banks Issue Digital Currency?

Review of Economic Studies

Todd Keister, Daniel Sanches

Date of Acceptance:

2022

Equilibrium Bitcoin Pricing

Journal of Finance

Bruno Biais, Christophe Bisière, Matthieu Bouvard, Catherine Casamatta, Albert J. Menkveld

Date of Acceptance:

2022

Overcoming the Coordination Problem in New Marketplaces via Cryptographic Tokens

Information Systems Research

Yannis Bakos, Hanna Halaburda

Date of Acceptance:

2022

Economics of Permissioned Blockchain Adoption

Management Science

Garud Iyengar, Fahad Saleh, Jay Sethuraman, Wenjun Wang

Date of Acceptance:

2022

The Economic Value of Blockchain Applications: Early Evidence from Asset-Backed Securities

Management Science

Xia Chen, Qiang Cheng, Ting Luo

Date of Acceptance:

2022

Redeemable Platform Currencies

Review of Economic Studies

Kenneth Rogoff, Yang You

Date of Acceptance:

2022

Central Bank Digital Currency: Welfare and Policy Implications

Journal of Political Economy

Stephen Williamson

Date of Acceptance:

2022

Impact of Traceability Technology Adoption in Food Supply Chain Networks

Management Science

Lingxiu Dong, Puping (Phil) Jiang, Fasheng Xu

Date of Acceptance:

2022

A Mean Field Games Model for Cryptocurrency Mining

Management Science

Zongxi Li, Max A. Reppen, Ronnie Sircar

Date of Acceptance:

2022

Corporate Capture of Blockchain Governance

Review of Financial Studies

Daniel Ferreira, Jin Li, Radoslawa Nikolowa

Date of Acceptance:

2022

Bitcoin's limited adoption problem

Journal of Financial Economics

Franz J. Hinzen, Kose John, Fahad Saleh

Date of Acceptance:

2022

De-Crypto-ing Signals in Initial Coin Offerings: Evidence of Rational Token Retention

Management Science

Tetiana Davydiuk, Deeksha Gupta, Samuel Rosen

Date of Acceptance:

2022

Decentralization through Tokenization

Journal of Finance

Michael Sockin, Wei Xiong

Date of Acceptance:

2022

StableFees: A Predictable Fee Market for Cryptocurrencies

Management Science

Soumya Basu, David Easley, Maureen O'Hara, Emin Gün Sirer

Date of Acceptance:

2022

Value and Design of Traceability-Driven Blockchains

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

Yao Cui, Ming Hu, Jingchen Liu

Date of Acceptance:

2022

Blockchain-Enabled Deep-Tier Supply Chain Finance

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

Lingxiu Dong, Yunzhe Qiu, Fasheng Xu

Date of Acceptance:

2022

An Examination of Velocity and Initial Coin Offerings

Management Science

Richard Holden, Anup Malani

Date of Acceptance:

2022

Need for speed, but how much does it cost? Unpacking the fee-speed relationship in Bitcoin transactions

Journal of Operations Management

Guangzhi Shang, Noyan Ilk, Shaokun Fan

Date of Acceptance:

2022

The Value of Smart Contract in Trade Finance

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

Xiaoyu Wang, Fasheng Xu

Date of Acceptance:

2022

Uncovering Retail Trading in Bitcoin: The Impact of COVID-19 Stimulus Checks

Management Science

Anantha Divakaruni, Peter Zimmerman

Date of Acceptance:

2022

Coins for Bombs: The Predictive Ability of On-Chain Transfers for Terrorist Attacks

Journal of Accounting Research

Dan Amiram, Biørn N. Jørgensen, Daniel Rabetti

Date of Acceptance:

2022

The conceptual flaws of decentralized automated market making

Management Science

Andreas Park

Date of Acceptance:

2023

Commitment Against Front-Running Attacks

Management Science

Andrea Canidio, Vincent Danos

Date of Acceptance:

2023

Development Trajectory of Blockchain Platforms: the Role of Multi-Role

Information Systems Research

Tianyi Li, Xiaoquan (Michael) Zhang

Date of Acceptance:

2023

Tokenomics: When Tokens Beat Equity

Management Science

Katya Malinova, Andreas Park

Date of Acceptance:

2023

Blockchain Operations in the Presence of Security Concerns

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

Jiahao He, Guangyuan Zhang, Jiheng Zhang, Rachel Q. Zhang

Date of Acceptance:

2023

Lightning Network Economics: Channels

Management Science

Paolo Guasoni, Gur Huberman, Clara Shikhelman

Date of Acceptance:

2023

Scaling Smart Contracts via Layer-2 Technologies: Some Empirical Evidence

Management Science

Lin William Cong, Xiang Hui, Catherine E. Tucker, Luofeng Zhou

Date of Acceptance:

2023

Tax-Loss Harvesting with Cryptocurrencies

Journal of Accounting and Economics

Lin William Cong, Wayne Landsman, Edward Maydew, Daniel Rabetti

Date of Acceptance:

2023

The (Limited) Power of Blockchain Networks for Information Provision

Management Science

Benedikt Franke, Gao Qi Fritz, André Stenzel

Date of Acceptance:

2023

Crypto Wash Trading

Management Science

Lin William Cong, Xi Li, Ke Tang, Yang Yang

Date of Acceptance:

2023

Why Fixed Costs Matter for Proof-of-Work Based Cryptocurrencies

Management Science

Rodney J. Garratt, Maarten R. C. van Oordt

Date of Acceptance:

2023

Central Bank Digital Currency and Banking: Macroeconomic Benefits of a Cash-Like Design

Management Science

Jonathan Chiu, Seyed Mohammadreza Davoodalhosseini

Date of Acceptance:

2023

Decentralized Platforms: Governance, Tokenomics, and ICO Design

Management Science

Jingxing (Rowena) Gan, Gerry Tsoukalas, Serguei Netessine

Date of Acceptance:

2023

Proof-of-Work Cryptocurrencies: Does Mining Technology Undermine Decentralization?

Management Science

Agostino Capponi, Sveinn Ólafsson, Humoud Alsabah

Date of Acceptance:

2023

The effects of tokenization on ride-hailing blockchain platforms

Production and Operations Management

Luoyi Sun, Guowei Hua, Ruud H.Teunter, T.C.E. Cheng, Zuo-Jun Max Shen

Date of Acceptance:

2023

Conflicted Analysts and Initial Coin Offerings

Management Science

Andreas Barth, Valerie Laturnus, Sasan Mansouri, Alexander F. Wagner

Date of Acceptance:

2023

A Model of Cryptocurrencies

Management Science

Michael Sockin, Wei Xiong

Date of Acceptance:

2023

Blockchain Adoption in a Supply Chain with Manufacturer Market Power

Management Science

Garud Iyengar, Fahad Saleh, Jay Sethuraman, Wenjun Wang

Date of Acceptance:

2023

Supply chain transparency and blockchain design

Management Science

Yao Cui, Vishal Gaur, Jingchen Liu

Date of Acceptance:

2023

Committee-Based Blockchains as Games between Opportunistic Players and Adversaries

Review of Financial Studies

Yackolley Amoussou-Guenou, Bruno Biais, Maria Potop-Butucaru, Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni

Date of Acceptance:

2023

Utility Tokens, Network Effects, and Pricing Power

Management Science

Kirill Shakhnov, Luana Zaccaria

Date of Acceptance:

2023

The Impact of Derivatives on Spot Markets: Evidence from the Introduction of Bitcoin Futures Contracts

Management Science

Patrick Augustin, Alexey Rubtsov, Donghwa Shin

Date of Acceptance:

2023

Interdependence between online peer-to-peer lending and cryptocurrency markets and its effects on financial inclusion

Production and Operations Management

Sunghun Chung, Keongtae Kim, Chul Ho Lee, Wonseok Oh

Date of Acceptance:

2023

Skin in the Game: The Transformational Potential of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations

MIS Quarterly

Eleunthia Wong Ellinger, Robert Wayne Gregory, Tobias Mini, Thomas Widjaja, Ola Henfridsson

Date of Acceptance:

2023

Scaling Blockchains: Can Committee-Based Consensus Help?

Management Science

Alon Benhaim, Brett Hemenway Falk, Gerry Tsoukalas

Date of Acceptance:

2023

The effects of signaling blockchain‐based track and trace on consumer purchases: Insights from a quasi‐natural experiment

Production and Operations Management

Hao Ying, Xiaosong Peng, Xiande Zhao, Zhong Chen

Date of Acceptance:

2023

Bank Market Power and Central Bank Digital Currency: Theory and Quantitative Assessment

Journal of Political Economy

Jonathan Chiu, Seyed Mohammadreza Davoodalhosseini, Janet Jiang, Yu Zhu

Date of Acceptance:

2023

Can Blockchain Technology Help Overcome Contractual Incompleteness? Evidence from State Laws

Management Science

Mark A. Chen, Shuting Sophia Hu, Joanna Wang, Qinxi Wu 

Date of Acceptance:

2023

Digitization of Transaction Terms as a Shift Parameter within TCE: Strong Smart Contract as a New Mode of Transaction Governance

MIS Quarterly

Hana Halaburda, Natalia Levina, Semi Min

Date of Acceptance:

2023

Product market competition with crypto tokens and smart contracts

Journal of Financial Economics

Jiri Chod, Evgeny Lyandres

Date of Acceptance:

2023

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