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DOI10.3386/w30256
来源IDWorking Paper 30256
A Luna-tic Stablecoin Crash
Harald Uhlig
发表日期2022-07-18
出版年2022
语种英语
摘要After remaining close to 1 US Dollar since its inception in November 2020, the algorithmic stablecoin UST crashed in the two weeks of May 9th to May 15th, 2022, leading to a price collapse of the underlying LUNA token and the erasure of more than 50 Billion U.S. Dollar or 90% in market value.
I provide a novel theory to account for these phenomena and use it to shed light on the data. I break new ground methodologically by showing how crashes unfold gradually, and by introducing the method of quantitative interpretation. To obtain a gradual unfolding of the crash, I allow for the possibility that the market might return to normal at any moment. Suspension of convertibility happens, once the price has fallen sufficiently far. Agents price LUNA, taking into account these probabilities as well as the ongoing inflow from burning UST coins. Agents sell their UST coins when the probability of an eventual suspension of convertibility exceeds some agent-specific threshold. The implications of the theory are highlighted in an analytically tractable example. The theory is then used as a guide to examine and interpret the data, using bi-hourly observations. I use the observed data to quantify theory variables and use them in turn to interpret the data. I find that the majority of the UST coin holders waited until the probability of suspension was rather high, before deciding to burn their holdings.
主题Macroeconomics ; Money and Interest Rates ; International Economics ; International Finance ; Financial Economics ; Portfolio Selection and Asset Pricing ; Financial Institutions
URLhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w30256
来源智库National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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