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Recent updates

Recent updates

Dated updates from the last 12 months across talks, CV links, publications, and Financial Times letters.

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  • March 11, 2026 "Conservation Priorities and Environmental Offsets: Markets for Florida Wetlands" by Daniel Aronoff and Will Rafey announced as forthcoming in The American Economic Review.
  • March 16, 2026 Macro Musings podcast: Neha Narula, Anders Brownworth, and Daniel Aronoff on Understanding Stablecoins in the GENIUS Era
  • March 6, 2026 RepoMech: A Method to Reduce the Balance-Sheet Impact of Repo Intermediation (arXiv: 2512.23842v1)
  • March 6, 2026 The Hidden Plumbing of Stablecoins: Financial and Technological Risks in the GENIUS Act Era
  • March 6, 2026 Presentation on "SoK: Fully-homomorphic encryption in smart contracts" at IFCA DeFi'26.
  • March 6, 2026 SoK: Fully-homomorphic encryption in smart contracts (Cryptology ePrint Archive)
  • May 1, 2025 A Smart-Contract to Resolve Multiple Equilibrium in an Intermediated Trade
  • October 1, 2025 AI-Driven, Post-Quantum Data Privacy Research Spotlight: Daniel Aronoff & Madars Virza · MIT-ILP conference, Securing the Future: AI-Driven Post-Quantum Data Privacy
  • June 1, 2024 Incorporating Cryptographic Methods in Economics · MIT-ILP NextGen Security Conference
  • November 1, 2023 R&D Fintech Innovation · 2023 MIT Research and Development Conference
  • September 1, 2021 Rethinking Currency with Daniel Aronoff · Invited lecture, Rethinking Economics NL
  • Recent ADESS: A Proof-of-Work Protocol to Deter Double-Spend Attacks
  • Recent A Theory of Accumulation and Secular Stagnation
  • Recent The Financial Crisis Reconsidered
  • Recent Mechanism Design for Hashrate Externalities: Implementing Optimal Security in Proof-of-Work
  • Recent Conservation Priorities and Environmental Offsets: Markets for Florida Wetlands
  • Recent Double-Spend Counterattacks: Threat of Retaliation in Proof-of-Work Systems
  • Recent DeFi for the Securities Industry
  • Recent AI-Driven, Post-Quantum Data Privacy Research Spotlight
  • Recent Incorporating Cryptographic Methods in Economics
  • Recent R&D Fintech Innovation
  • Recent Rethinking Currency with Daniel Aronoff
  • November 19, 2024 SCBX Cryptography Use Cases: Credit Score Averaging with Differential Privacy and FHE · SCBX slide deck
  • February 7, 2024 ADESS: A Proof-of-Work Protocol to Deter Double-Spend Attacks · FICC 2024 Berlin
  • October 14, 2021 A Causal Inference Algorithm for Heterogeneous Treatment Effects · MIT Econometrics Lunch
  • Recent Essays on Incentive Designs to Improve Market Performance
  • Recent Stablecoins and the Limits of Existing Analogies
  • Recent The GENIUS Act is Now Law. What's Missing?
  • Recent 1:1 Redemptions for Some, Not All
  • Recent Will Stablecoins Impact the US Treasury Market?
  • Recent Targeted Nakamoto
  • February 16, 2026 Come the next crisis, don't say you weren't warned
  • October 16, 2023 US antitrust and the moral justification for capitalism
  • May 9, 2023 Cryptocurrency critique can do with more context
  • December 20, 2022 Look beyond the domain of exchanges for crypto's real promise
  • March 4, 2022 Putin’s is only one side of the national character
  • December 21, 2021 Local lenders could help US banks’ discrimination problem
  • June 24, 2021 Banks should not be the gatekeepers of digital currencies
  • May 18, 2021 Netanyahu’s regional policy reflects strategic realities
  • March 31, 2021 Increased spending has inescapable consequences
  • December 13, 2020 Why bitcoin can never be a reserve currency
  • August 19, 2020 It’s right to tread carefully with digital currencies
  • June 21, 2018 Immigrants will be needed as the baby boomers age
  • April 10, 2018 Two opposing forces can be reconciled by Beijing
  • December 28, 2017 Bannon has his finger on the populist pulse
  • October 6, 2017 Biases may invalidate any conclusions drawn on voters' behaviour
  • October 6, 2017 Biases may invalidate any conclusions drawn on voters' behaviour
  • August 14, 2017 A timely warning over Treasury bonds
  • May 25, 2017 Skewed markets prove case for reforms that benefit citizens
  • April 24, 2017 Trump has valid reasons to be concerned about the US trade deficit
  • March 13, 2017 President Trump has legitimate frustrations
  • March 13, 2017 President Trump has legitimate frustrations
  • January 20, 2017 Undervalued exchange rates, Japanese auto imports, and economic policy
  • January 19, 2017 Bilateral imbalances with US were Beijing's policy
  • November 16, 2016 Letter President-elect’s views on trade are not delusional
  • August 29, 2016 Capital formation rate cannot be blamed on after-tax profits
  • July 12, 2016 Mao inflicted horror on the Chinese people
  • May 3, 2016 Competition and redistribution
  • March 23, 2015 Wrestle no longer with the Greenspan conundrum
  • January 27, 2015 Companies look set to be around for a while yet
  • December 17, 2014 Jeb can follow his brother in courting Hispanic vote
  • November 18, 2014 Money multiplier is not fixed but depends on the volume of private credit
  • November 12, 2014 Lord Turner's proposal should be treated with caution
  • October 6, 2014 Savings not intended to be spent are behind stagnation
  • September 5, 2014 An almost brilliant analysis of the American economy
  • August 17, 2014 Monopoly is the enemy of growth
  • July 3, 2014 Another dose of the drug to mask the disease
  • November 5, 2013 Anthropologists will be baffled by bondholder escape
  • September 17, 2013 It is a mistake to put a bridle on bank innovation
  • August 18, 2013 Regulators should not go too far in fixing rules on leverage
  • July 17, 2013 Reload the gun ahead of the next crisis
  • June 13, 2013 Cashing in privacy for security is a perilous path
  • April 10, 2013 Cool outpost portends strife in divided Detroit
  • March 14, 2013 "This time is never different" for deficit spending
  • March 14, 2013 "This time is never different" for deficit spending
  • December 30, 2012 Those who muddle through may inherit the earth
  • November 8, 2012 Hispanics are not lost to the GOP
  • October 11, 2012 Tea Party has middle ground in austerity vs stimulus debate
  • September 21, 2012 Seventies stagnation shows the value of monetary stability
  • August 17, 2012 Bootstrap recovery through self-belief
  • July 18, 2012 A government spending boom won't set us free
  • June 20, 2012 Let those who venture absorb their own losses
  • June 20, 2012 Let those who venture absorb their own losses
  • April 23, 2012 Breakup of union is likely to bring widespread defaults
  • February 19, 2012 Urban sprawl around Detroit is distinctly divided in two
  • December 28, 2011 Public services need competition
  • November 25, 2011 Lending contraction must be tackled
  • September 6, 2011 Debt overhangs stop the banks acting normally
  • July 1, 2011 Demand won't be lifted by greater public spending
  • May 25, 2011 Finance does not explain everything
  • April 23, 2011 Enduring and prescient analysis of conflict
  • March 21, 2011 Keynes can help us make sense of contingent events
  • October 8, 2010 Missed opportunity to tackle chronic surpluses
  • September 3, 2010 Lending restraint is here for a while
  • August 6, 2010 Policymakers should only proceed with more humility
  • December 1, 2009 Go for diversity not dinosaurs
  • October 7, 2008 The mystery of why the $700bn Tarp was given the go-ahead by US Congress
  • September 18, 2008 FT.com letters (uncertain title)
  • September 18, 2008 Beware the fallout from the AIG bail-out
  • February 28, 2007 Private equity buy-outs create value by applying brakes on expansion
  • June 5, 2006 Perennial struggle between China's centre and the provinces continues to resonate
  • March 17, 2006 US has a stake in keeping China stable
  • November 12, 2005 W Europe drawn into a 'banal' nihlism
  • September 17, 2004 US pull-out would intoxicate Arabs
  • August 17, 2004 A high ebb will lead to a low flow
  • July 31, 2004 Working-class support for Republican policies is grounded in rational shift from New Deal
  • April 12, 2004 Economic development, not redistribution, is key
  • October 19, 2003 Keynes' thinking continues to inspire us today
  • December 30, 2002 Deflation increases the chances of business failure in Japan
  • November 8, 2002 The world needs the US to continue promoting trade liberalization
  • January 30, 2002 The resilience of US consumers is rational

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