Research library
Stablecoin Research Library
A curated, structured bibliography of the stablecoin literature: academic papers, working papers, central-bank and regulator reports, and primary policy texts. 22 works, organised by research topic, each with its key findings and a link to the source. We link to and summarise sources; we do not host copyrighted full text.
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Regulation & Policy
MiCA, the GENIUS Act, e-money frameworks and supervisory approaches.
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Financial Stability & Systemic Risk
Systemic risk, contagion, run risk and spillovers to short-term funding markets.
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Peg Stability & Runs
Peg mechanisms, depegs, run risk, redemption and reserve design.
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Monetary Policy & Banking
Policy transmission, money supply, deposit competition and bank disintermediation.
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Dollarization & Emerging Markets
Currency substitution, capital flows and monetary sovereignty in emerging markets.
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Payments & Settlement
Cross-border payments, settlement, remittances and machine/agentic commerce.
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Design & Economics
Fiat-backed vs crypto-backed vs algorithmic designs, reserves and seigniorage.
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Market Structure & Adoption
Concentration, competition, issuer economics and adoption.
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DeFi & Collateral
Stablecoins as DeFi collateral, yield and composability.
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Latest additions
- High-level Recommendations for the Regulation, Supervision and Oversight of Global Stablecoin Arrangements
- Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 on Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA)
- Regulatory regime for systemic payment systems using stablecoins and related service providers
- What Keeps Stablecoins Stable?
- A Luna-tic Stablecoin Crash
- Application of the Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures to stablecoin arrangements
- Can Stablecoins Be Stable?
- Cryptocurrencies and Decentralized Finance (DeFi)