William J. Luther

Florida Atlantic University

Associate Professor of Economics

777 Glades Road

Boca Raton, FL 33431

United States

http://www.wluther.com

American Institute for Economic Research

Director, Sound Money Project

PO Box 1000

Great Barrington, MA 01230

United States

http://www.aier.org/staff/william-j-luther

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1.

Can Bitcoin Become a Major Currency?

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 14-17
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 06 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 22 May 2018
William J. Luther and Lawrence H. White
Florida Atlantic University and George Mason University - Department of Economics
Downloads 6,994 (1,792)
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Bitcoin, Medium of Exchange, Store of Value, Unit of Account

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Bitcoin is Memory

Journal of Prices & Markets, 3(3), 2015: 22-33.
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 09 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 22 May 2018
William J. Luther and Josiah Olson
Florida Atlantic University and Kenyon College
Downloads 4,250 (4,154)
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bitcoin, crypto-currency, currency competition, medium of exchange, memory, monetary standard, money, payment system

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Bitcoin and the Future of Digital Payments

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 18 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 24 May 2018
William J. Luther
Florida Atlantic University
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Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Digital Payments, Payment Systems, Network Effects, Switching Costs, Regulation

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Cryptocurrencies, Network Effects, and Switching Costs

Mercatus Center Working Paper No. 13-17
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 18 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 22 May 2018
William J. Luther
Florida Atlantic University
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bitcoin, cryptocurrency, currency competition, lock-in, medium of exchange, monetary standard, money, network effects, path dependence, spontaneous switching, standardization

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The Political Economy of Bitcoin

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 29 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 22 May 2018
Joshua R. Hendrickson, Thomas L. Hogan and William J. Luther
University of Mississippi, American Institute for Economic Research and Florida Atlantic University
Downloads 2,305 (11,234)
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Money matching, Random matching, Endogenous matching, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin

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Using NPR's Planet Money Podcast in Principles of Macroeconomics

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 07 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 09 Dec 2014
William J. Luther
Florida Atlantic University
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National Public Radio, Planet Money, Podcast, Teaching

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Is Bitcoin Intrinsically Worthless?

AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2018-07
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 17 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 22 May 2018
William J. Luther
Florida Atlantic University
Downloads 1,202 (30,528)
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bitcoin, cryptocurrency, intrinsic worth, money, payment, payment system

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Regulating Bitcoin: On What Grounds?

Luther, William J. 2016. "Regulating Bitcoin: On What Grounds?" In Reframing Financial Regulation: Enhancing Stability and Protecting Consumers, Hester Peirce and Benjamin Klutsey (eds.). Arlington, VA: Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 17 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 22 May 2018
William J. Luther
Florida Atlantic University
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Bitcoin, Budgetary Policy, Consumer Protection, Cryptocurrency, Drug Trade, Illegal Transactions, Illegal Transfers, Macroeconomic Policy, Monetary Policy, Regulation, Silk Road, Terrorism

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Pornhub and the Value of Bitcoin

AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2022-04
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 19 Feb 2022
William J. Luther
Florida Atlantic University
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bitcoin, cryptocurrency, deplatforming, financial privacy, payments, platforms, Pornhub

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Labor Economics from an Austrian Perspective

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 12-41
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 17 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2017
Peter J. Boettke, Peter J. Boettke and William J. Luther
George Mason University - Department of EconomicsMercatus Center at George Mason University and Florida Atlantic University
Downloads 776 (56,147)
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Austrian, Austrian business cycle theory, Böhm-Bawerk, entrepreneurship, Hayek, labor, labor theory of value, marginalism, Mises, search, uncertainty, unemployment

11.

The Monetary Mechanism of Stateless Somalia

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 29 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 26 Aug 2015
William J. Luther
Florida Atlantic University
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institutions, monetary regime, monetary standard, Somalia, Somali shilling, purchasing power

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Positively Valued Fiat Money after the Sovereign Disappears: The Case of Somalia

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 11-14
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 04 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 28 Jun 2016
William J. Luther and Lawrence H. White
Florida Atlantic University and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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Belief, Focal Point, Inertia, Learning, Monetary Regime, Monetary Standard, Money, Search, Self-fulfilling Prophecy, Somalia, Somali Shilling

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Banning Bitcoin

AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2020-07
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 14 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2020
Joshua R. Hendrickson and William J. Luther
University of Mississippi and Florida Atlantic University
Downloads 652 (70,503)
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Ban, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Currency, Endogenous matching, Money, Money matching, Political economy, Random matching, Transactions policy

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An Empirical Analysis of the Austrian Business Cycle Theory

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 11 Jan 2014
William J. Luther and Mark Cohen
Florida Atlantic University and Kenyon College
Downloads 636 (72,847)
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Austrian, boom, business cycle, bust, federal funds rate, Friedrich A. Hayek, interest rate, Ludwig von Mises, macroeconomic fluctuation, monetary policy, natural rate of interest, neutral rate of interest, producer price index, productivity rule, recession, stage of process, structure of production

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Is Bitcoin Money? (And What that Means)

AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2019-13
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 15 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2021
Peter K. Hazlett and William J. Luther
George Mason University, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Economics and Florida Atlantic University
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Bitcoin, Medium of Exchange, Money, Store of Value, Unit of Account

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Getting Off the Ground: The Case of Bitcoin

AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2018-03
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 08 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2018
William J. Luther
Florida Atlantic University
Downloads 579 (82,068)
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bitcoin, coordination, cryptocurrency, currency, demand for money, intrinsic worth, launch, money, use-value

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Movie Production Incentives: Blockbuster Support for Lackluster Policy

Tax Foundation Special Report, No. 173, January 2010
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 20 Jan 2010
William J. Luther
Florida Atlantic University
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Tax Policy, Production Incentives, State and Local Government

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The Ordinary Economics of an Extraordinary Crisis

MACROECONOMIC THEORY AND ITS FAILINGS: ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVE ON THE WORLD FINANCIAL CRISIS, Steven Kates, ed., Edward Elgar Publishing
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 19 Jan 2010
Peter J. Boettke, Peter J. Boettke and William J. Luther
George Mason University - Department of EconomicsMercatus Center at George Mason University and Florida Atlantic University
Downloads 502 (97,622)
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Financial Crisis, Austrian Business Cycle

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Cash, Crime, and Cryptocurrencies

AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2019-01
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 25 Feb 2019
Joshua R. Hendrickson and William J. Luther
University of Mississippi and Florida Atlantic University
Downloads 484 (102,042)
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bitcoin, cash, crime, criminal activity, cryptocurrency, currency, money, money matching, political economy, tax, taxation; tax evasion

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On the Origin of Cryptocurrencies

AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2022-02
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 06 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2022
William J. Luther and Nikhil Sridhar
Florida Atlantic University and George Mason University
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Austrian economics, bitcoin, cryptocurrency, Menger, Mises, regression theorem

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Synthesizing State and Spontaneous Order Theories of Money

Advances in Austrian Economics 18 2014
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 03 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2015
Alexander William Salter and William J. Luther
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Florida Atlantic University
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chartalism, Knapp, medium of exchange, Menger, money, search, spontaneous order, state theory of money, unit of account

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Behavioral and Policy Responses to COVID-19: Evidence from Google Mobility Data on State-Level Stay-at-Home Orders

AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2020-06
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 11 May 2020 Last Revised: 18 Sep 2020
William J. Luther
Florida Atlantic University
Downloads 429 (117,665)
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coronavirus, COVID-19, disease, stay-at-home order, pandemic, virus

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Hayek, Keynes, and Modern Macroeconomics

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 31 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 30 Jun 2011
Roger Koppl and William J. Luther
Syracuse University and Florida Atlantic University
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animal spirits, cognition, complexity, Great Recession, Hayek, Keynes, radical uncertainty, state of confidence

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Friedman Versus Hayek on Private Outside Monies: New Evidence for the Debate

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 10 May 2011 Last Revised: 21 Aug 2012
William J. Luther
Florida Atlantic University
Downloads 387 (132,462)
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Comparative Monetary Systems, Competitive Monies, Denationalisation of Money, Friedman, Government and the Monetary System, Hayek, Medium of Exchange, Money, Monetary Standards, Monetary Regimes, Network Effects, Regulation

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The Optimal Austrian Business Cycle Theory

Advances in Austrian Economics 20 2016: 45-60
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 11 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 07 Aug 2016
Alexander William Salter and William J. Luther
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Florida Atlantic University
Downloads 379 (135,601)
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Austrian, boom, business cycle, bust, Friedrich A. Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, macroeconomic fluctuation, structure of production, rational expectations

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On the Empirical Relevance of the Mises-Hayek Theory of the Trade Cycle

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 27 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 08 Apr 2014
William J. Luther and Mark Cohen
Florida Atlantic University and Kenyon College
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Austrian, boom, business cycle, bust, Friedrich A. Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, macroeconomic fluctuation, stage of process, structure of production

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Bitcoin and the Bailout

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 15 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 24 Jan 2017
William J. Luther and Alexander William Salter
Florida Atlantic University and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
Downloads 339 (153,133)
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bitcoin, cryptocurrency, currency competition, medium of exchange, money, payment system

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Digital Gold: The Case for Cryptocurrencies

AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2021-13
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 08 Nov 2021
William J. Luther
Florida Atlantic University
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bitcoin, cryptocurrency, money, monetary economics, payments

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The Value of Bitcoin in the Year 2141 (and Beyond!)

AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2021-06
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 14 May 2021
Joshua R. Hendrickson and William J. Luther
University of Mississippi and Florida Atlantic University
Downloads 334 (156,046)
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bitcoin, cryptocurrency, currency, demand for money, fiat money

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The Federal Reserve's Response to the COVID-19 Contraction: An Initial Appraisal

Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 87 (4) 2021: 1152-1174, AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2021-01
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 09 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 27 Jun 2022
Nicolas Cachanosky, Bryan Cutsinger, Thomas L. Hogan, William J. Luther and Alexander William Salter
The University of Texas at El Paso, Angelo State University - Accounting, Economics and Finance Department, American Institute for Economic Research, Florida Atlantic University and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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COVID-19, credit allocation, Federal Reserve, lending facilities, monetary policy

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Is Bitcoin a Decentralized Payment Mechanism?

AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2020-03
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 09 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 28 Feb 2020
William J. Luther and Sean Stein Smith
Florida Atlantic University and Lehman College
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bitcoin, centralized, consensus decentralized, distributed, exchange, governance, payments, e-wallet

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Central Bank Independence and the Federal Reserve's New Operating Regime

AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2019-07
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 19 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 05 Oct 2020
Jerry L. Jordan and William J. Luther
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and Florida Atlantic University
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Central Bank, Central Bank Independence, Federal Reserve, Monetary Policy, Political Economy

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G. Heinsohn and O. Steiger's Ownership Economics: On the Foundations of Interest, Money, Markets, Business Cycles and Economic Development

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 11 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 24 May 2017
William J. Luther
Florida Atlantic University
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book review, ownership economics, property, property rights

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Benn Steil's The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order

Number of pages: 3 Posted: 18 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 24 May 2017
William J. Luther
Florida Atlantic University
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monetary systems, monetary regimes, gold standard, Bretton Woods, John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White

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B. Mclean and J. Nocera's All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis

Economic Affairs (Institute for Economic Affairs), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 2 Posted: 22 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 24 May 2017
William J. Luther
Florida Atlantic University
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Book Review

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Evenly Rotating Economy: A New Modeling Technique for an Old Equilibrium Construct

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 26 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 17 Sep 2013
William J. Luther
Florida Atlantic University
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Austrian economics, evenly rotating economy, general equilibrium, matching, Mises, search, Walrasian

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The Great Recession and its Aftermath from a Monetary Equilibrium Theory Perspective

Mercatus Center Working Paper No. 10-63
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 05 Dec 2010
Steven Horwitz and William J. Luther
Ball State University - Department of Economics and Florida Atlantic University
Downloads 238 (219,912)
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Austrian Economics, Bailout, Business Cycle, FDIC, Monetary Equilibrium Theory, Monetary Systems, Monetary Policy, Moral Hazard, Nominal Income Targeting, The Great Recession

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How Does a Well-functioning Gold Standard Function?

Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2021-07
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 08 Nov 2021
Peter C Earle and William J. Luther
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Florida Atlantic University
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gold, gold standard, money, monetary economics, monetary regimes, monetary systems, political economy

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Book Review: L. J. Kotlikoff’s, Jimmy Stewart is Dead: Ending the World’s Ongoing Financial Plague with Limited Purpose Banking

Economic Affairs (Institute for Economic Affairs), Vol. 31, No. 1, 2011
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 27 Feb 2011
William J. Luther
Florida Atlantic University
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Book Review

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The Explicit Costs of Government Deposit Insurance

Cato Journal, Vol. 34 (1) pp.145-170, Winter 2014
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 13 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2014
Thomas L. Hogan and William J. Luther
American Institute for Economic Research and Florida Atlantic University
Downloads 204 (254,334)
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Actuarially fair, Bank failures, Comparative Institutional Analysis, Deposit insurance, Diamond-Dybvig, FDIC

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Two Paths Forward for Austrian Macroeconomics

AIER Sound Money Project, Working Paper No. 2020-11
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 05 May 2020 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2020
William J. Luther
Florida Atlantic University
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Austrian; business cycle; macroeconomics

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Regulatory Ambiguity in the Market for Bitcoin

AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2019-10
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 06 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 09 Aug 2019
William J. Luther
Florida Atlantic University
Downloads 190 (271,143)
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ambiguity, bitcoin, cryptocurrency, regulation, political economy

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Adaptation and Central Banking

AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2018-01
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 04 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 22 May 2018
Alexander William Salter and William J. Luther
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Florida Atlantic University
Downloads 181 (282,927)
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Adaptation, Bailout, Central Bank, Motivation, Seigniorage, Selection, Research

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Seigniorage Payments and the Federal Reserve’s New Operating Regime

Free Market Institute Research Paper No. 4086897, AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2023-01, Economics Letters, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 19 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 20 Jan 2023
Bryan Cutsinger and William J. Luther
Angelo State University - Accounting, Economics and Finance Department and Florida Atlantic University
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Seigniorage, Federal Reserve, Dollar, Interest on Reserves, Floor System

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Estimating Optimal Denominations

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 24 May 2012
William J. Luther
Florida Atlantic University
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Banknotes, Coins, Currency, Denomination, Denomination Structure, Monetary Regime, Monetary Standard, Monetary Unit, Money, Payments, Payment System, Powers-of-Three, Powers-of-Two, Somalia, Somali Shilling

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Kenneth S. Rogoff's The Curse of Cash

Number of pages: 3 Posted: 23 May 2017
William J. Luther
Florida Atlantic University
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cash, money, ban, curse of cash, crime, tax evasion, zero lower bound

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The Implicit Costs of Government Deposit Insurance

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 21 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2015
Thomas L. Hogan and William J. Luther
American Institute for Economic Research and Florida Atlantic University
Downloads 162 (311,211)
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Actuarially fair, Bank failures, Comparative Institutional Analysis, Deposit insurance, Diamond-Dybvig, FDIC

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Austrian Macroeconomics in Search of Its Uniqueness

AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2018-05
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 14 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 05 Jan 2018
William J. Luther and J.P. McElyea
Florida Atlantic University and comScore, Inc.
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Austrian, Austrian business cycle, Austrian macroeconomics, business cycle, macroeconomics, macroeconomic fluctuation

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Endogenous Matching and Money with Random Consumption Preferences

AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2018-11
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 13 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2018
Thomas L. Hogan and William J. Luther
American Institute for Economic Research and Florida Atlantic University
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Money matching, Random matching, Endogenous matching, Monetary equilibrium

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Estimating the Effect of State-Level Stay-at-Home Orders

AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2020-09
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 26 May 2020 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2020
William J. Luther
Florida Atlantic University
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coronavirus, COVID-19, disease, stay-at-home order, pandemic, virus

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Monetary Equilibrium and Price Stickiness Reconsidered: A Reply to Bagus and Howden

Review of Austrian Economics 25(3) 2012: 263-269
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 29 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2014
William J. Luther and Alexander William Salter
Florida Atlantic University and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Austrian economics, central banking, commodity standard, fiat money, free banking, macroeconomics, money, monetary equilibrium theory, monetary standard, sticky information, sticky prices

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Michael R. Strain's The American Dream Is Not Dead

AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2020-18
Number of pages: 2 Posted: 09 Jul 2020
William J. Luther
Florida Atlantic University
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economic growth, labor, wages, mobility, inequality, public policy

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Mises and the Moderns on the Inessentiality of Money in Equilibrium

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 03 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2015
William J. Luther
Florida Atlantic University
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Austrian economics, epistemic frictions, evenly rotating economy, exchange frictions, experimental macroeconomics, general equilibrium, gift exchange, infinite games, matching, Mises, monetary economics, money, search, social norms

54.

Cross-Country Differences in Personal Protection Equipment Use

AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 04 May 2020
William J. Luther
Florida Atlantic University
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disease, monitoring, network, network effect, network externality, personal protection equipment, pandemic, social sanction, virus

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Suboptimal Equilibria from Nominal GDP Targeting

AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 01 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2019
Thomas L. Hogan and William J. Luther
American Institute for Economic Research and Florida Atlantic University
Downloads 98 (455,344)
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Monetary Policy, Nominal GDP targeting, Inflation, Economic growth

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Bitcoin Works In Practice, But Does It Work In Theory?

AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2023-06
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 21 Jun 2023
Andrew Bailey, Troy Cross, Joshua R. Hendrickson, William J. Luther, Bradley Rettler and Craig Warmke
National University of Singapore (NUS) - Yale-NUS College, Reed College, University of Mississippi, Florida Atlantic University, University of Wyoming and Northern Illinois University
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bitcoin, network consensus, scaling of payments

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The Economics Underlying the Ethics of Fiscal Stimuli

Journal of Lutheran Ethics, Vol. 9, No. 3, 2009
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 19 Jan 2010
William J. Luther
Florida Atlantic University
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Deposit Insurance Is Not Fair

Harwood Economic Review, Winter: 6-7
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 11 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2018
Thomas L. Hogan and William J. Luther
American Institute for Economic Research and Florida Atlantic University
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Actuarially fair, Bank failures, Deposit insurance

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Economic Freedom is Negative Liberty: A Comment on Legum (2007) and Stanford (2007)

Real-World Economics Review, Vol. 3, No. 47, pp. 261-262, October 2008
Number of pages: 2 Posted: 20 Jan 2010
Robert A. Lawson, Joshua C. Hall and William J. Luther
Auburn University - Department of Finance, West Virginia University and Florida Atlantic University
Downloads 94 (467,882)
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Economic Freedom, Economic Growth, Institutions

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Four Principles for a Base Money Regime

AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2020-02
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 18 Nov 2019
William J. Luther
Florida Atlantic University
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base money; bitcoin; fiat money; gold; gold standard

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Ireland

BOOMS AND BUSTS: AN ENCYLOPDIA OF ECONOMIC HISTORY FROM TULIPMANIA OF THE 1630s TO THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS OF THE 21st CENTURY, pp. 418-421, James Ciment, ed., Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2010
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 20 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 23 Jul 2011
Joshua C. Hall and William J. Luther
West Virginia University and Florida Atlantic University
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Economic Growth, Institutions, Ireland

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Deposit Insurance Is Not Free

Mercatus on Policy, No. 115, 2012
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 18 Dec 2012
William J. Luther and Thomas L. Hogan
Florida Atlantic University and American Institute for Economic Research
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The Relevance of Bitcoin to the Regression Theorem: Reply to Pickering

AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2022-03
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 14 Feb 2022
William J. Luther
Florida Atlantic University
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Austrian economics, bitcoin, cryptocurrency, Ludwig von Mises, regression theorem

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Bitcoin Blocksize, Custodial Security, and Price

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 26 Oct 2023 Last Revised: 01 Nov 2023
Douglas J. Cumming, Zachary Glatzer, Joshua R. Hendrickson and William J. Luther
Florida Atlantic University - College of Business, Florida Atlantic University - College of Business, University of Mississippi and Florida Atlantic University
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BRACE for a New Interventionist Economics

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 12 Jun 2014
Roger Koppl and William J. Luther
Syracuse University and Florida Atlantic University
Downloads 58 (613,026)

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E32, G12, E5, E6

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Patience and Principles

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 27 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2016
William J. Luther
Florida Atlantic University
Downloads 51 (650,533)

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Macroeconomics, Discount Rate, Grades, Patience, Time Preference

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David Golumbia's The Politics of Bitcoin: Software As Right-Wing Extremism

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 24 May 2017
William J. Luther
Florida Atlantic University
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bitcoin, ideology, software, extremism, right-wing, poltics

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Preface to On the Origins of Money by Carl Menger

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 16 Jun 2014
William J. Luther
Florida Atlantic University
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Carl Menger, Medium of Exchange, Money, Spontaneous Order