Daniel Neilson, professor of economics at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and author of “Soon Parted,” returns to Forward Guidance to share findings from his seminal paper, “On par: A Money View of stablecoins.” Co-authored with Iñaki Aldasoro and Perry Mehrling as a working paper for the Bank For International Settlements (BIS), this paper compares on-chain currency (stablecoins) to Eurodollars to explore how they deal with issues of liquidity and par settlement. Filmed on December 8, 2023.
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BIS Paper, “On par: A Money View of stablecoins”: https://www.bis.org/publ/work1146.pdf
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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
01:58 Why Stablecoins?
05:10 The Issue Of Par
10:07 The Great Financial Crisis Of 2008
12:36 Did The Fed's Rate Surge Halt The Stablecoin Boom?
22:30 Stablecoins, The New Eurodollars
24:44 The Need For Smooth Forward Markets
28:04 There's No Central Bank In Crypto
34:46 Silicon Valley Bank and Circle
50:07 Tether
01:02:44 The Role Of Zero Interest Rates
01:05:25 The Role Of Stablecoins: "Lots of Fireworks"
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