Gina C Pieters

Gina C Pieters
University of Chicago | UC · Department of Economics

PhD, (Economics, University of Minnesota)

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Introduction
Gina C Pieters currently works at the Department of Economics , University of Chicago, and is an honorary Research Fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance at University of Cambridge. Gina does cryptocurrency research in Monetary Economics, International Economics, Financial Economics.
Additional affiliations
November 2017 - present
University College London
Position
  • Research Associate
January 2017 - present
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Position
  • Research Associate
September 2012 - present
Trinity University
Position
  • Professor (Assistant)
Education
September 2006 - June 2012
September 2001 - June 2005
September 2001 - June 2005

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Publications (7)
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We document significant differences in Bitcoin prices across 11 different markets representing 26% of global Bitcoin trade volume. These differences must --- due to the identical nature of all bitcoin--- result from characteristics of markets themselves. We examine differences across the markets and find that those which do not require customer ide...
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This article gives a very general introduction to the technology, promises and limitations of blockchain technology --- popularized by the digital currency Bitcoin and a key force behind the surge of cryptocurrencies. Blockchain acts as a distributed database or joint global register of all transactions --- a decentralized digital ledger --- and ha...
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A short, 5 page article written for non-economists in which I explain how and why decentralized virtual currencies (like Bitcoin or Ethereum) may have substantial impacts on global capital markets, monetary policy, and exchange rates. (I also lay out a classification scheme differentiating between Virtual Currency, Digital Currency, and Cryptocurre...
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Many countries manipulate the value of their currency or use some form of capital control, yet the data usually used to detect these manipulations are low frequency, expensive, lagged, and potentially mis-measured. I demonstrate that the price data of the internationally traded cryptocurrency Bitcoin can approximate unofficial exchange rates which,...

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