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Gur Huberman

Gur Huberman

· Robert G. Kirby Professor of Behavioral Finance

Columbia University · French and Italian

Active 1980–2024

h-index37
Citations9.8k
Papers959 last 5y
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Research topics

  • Computer Science
  • Economics
  • Computer Security
  • Microeconomics
  • Finance
  • Business
  • Industrial organization
  • Computer network
  • Database
  • Monetary economics

Selected publications

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

    The Review of Economic Studies · 2021 · 233 citations

    1st authorCorresponding

    Abstract Bitcoin provides its users with transaction-processing services which are similar to those of traditional payment systems. This article models the novel economic structure implied by Bitcoin’s innovative decentralized design, which allows the payment system to be reliably operated by unrelated parties called miners. We find that this decentralized design protects users from monopoly pricing. Competition among service providers within the platform and free entry imply no entity can profi…

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

    SSRN Electronic Journal · 2017-01-01 · 213 citations

    articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding
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  • Limited Contract Enforcement and Strategic Renegotiation

    American Economic Review · 2016-01-01 · 117 citations

    article1st authorCorresponding

    This paper presents a strategic theory of contract renegotiation. In this theory, suboptimal contracts are put in place initially to protect one party against undesirable a ctions by another party and are renegotiated once the danger is past. The authors develop a model to establish the cases in which simple contracts cannot achieve desirable outcomes, so that only a complicated contract or renegotiation will serve. Unlike most previous accounts of contract renegotiation, this theory does not re…

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

    SSRN Electronic Journal · 2017-01-01 · 81 citations

    articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding
    PublisherDOI

  • An Economist’s Perspective on the Bitcoin Payment System

    AEA Papers and Proceedings · 2019-05-01 · 34 citations

    article1st authorCorresponding

    The paper's introduction offers a high-level review of Bitcoin's features, especially its governance by protocol. The paper proceeds to summarize Bitcoin's analysis as a payment system. It pays particular attention to a comparison between Bitcoin and a firm-run payment system.

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Frequent coauthors

  • Simon Gilchrist

    New York University

    83 shared

  • Charles P. Himmelberg

    83 shared

  • Paolo Guasoni

    22 shared

  • Daniel Dorn

    Drexel University

    13 shared

  • Shmuel Kandel

    Tel Aviv University

    13 shared

  • Ciamac C. Moallemi

    9 shared

  • Jacob D. Leshno

    University of Chicago

    9 shared

  • Werner Stanzl

    6 shared

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