The BlockSem seminar brings together academic and private researchers working on blockchain technologies. The seminar is multidisciplinary, hosting presenters from computer science, economics and finance.
The BlockSem seminar brings together academic and private researchers working on blockchain technologies. The seminar is multidisciplinary, hosting presenters from computer science, economics and finance.
The BlockSem seminar brings together academic and private researchers working on blockchain technologies. The seminar is multidisciplinary, hosting presenters from computer science, economics and finance.
We use microeconomic theory to describe the inner workings of Constant Function Market Makers (CFMMs). We show that standard results from consumer theory apply in this new context, endowing us with powerful tools to characterize the optimal design of CFMMs. We employ them to analyze the externalities that traders and liquidity providers exert on each other when interacting through a CFMM. Liquidity providers reduce the execution costs by flattening the bonding curve on which trades are executed. Arbitrageurs impose an adverse selection cost on liquidity providers by unfavorably rebalancing their portfolio. We show that the strengths of these two externalities are pinned down by the curvature of the bonding curve and are inversely related to each other, thereby identifying the fundamental economic tradeoff that market designers have to address.
We provide an overview of the academic literature on Automated Market Makers for Decentralized Exchanges. Our review puts an emphasis on contributions from researchers in economics and finance. We cover papers that study the optimal design of Automated Market Makers. Then we discuss models that leverage the insights from the literature on two-sided markets to characterize the equilibrium size of liquidity pools and the incentives of liquidity providers. Finally, we review recent research on the interactions between Miner Extractible Value and Decentralized Exchanges.
