Financial and Monetary Systems
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Cryptocurrencies have gone from obscurity to a trillion dollar valuation in just over a decade. A risk expert explains why their their time could be up.
Jon Danielsson
Jon Danielsson is a director of the ESRC funded Systemic Risk Centre at the London School of Economics. He has a Ph.D. in the economics of financial markets and his research interests include financial stability, systemic risk, extreme market movements, market liquidity and financial crisis.
He has published his research extensively in both academic journals and the mainstream media, and has presented his work in a number of universities and institutions.
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