Paolo Tasca (professor)

Paolo Tasca is an Italian-born economist and academic.[1][2] He is currently an associate professor at the University College London, which was also named one of the top global universities for blockchain in 2022.[3] He is also the founder and director of the European nonprofit organisation, the DLT Science Foundation.[4][5]

Paolo Tasca
Born
NationalityItalian
Alma materUniversity of Padua
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
ETH Zurich
OccupationEconomist
Websitewww.paolotasca.com

Early life and education edit

Tasca was born in Bassano del Grappa, Italy.[6] He earned his M.A from the University of Padua and his M.Sc. from the Ca' Foscari University of Venice.[7] In addition, he pursued his PhD studies at both the Ca' Foscari University and ETH Zurich.[7]

Career edit

Tasca is an associate professor at the University College London.[8][9] He is also the founder and incumbent executive director of the Centre for Blockchain Technology at University College London.[10][11] Previously, he worked as a senior research economist at Deutsche Bundesbank.[7]

As an advisor, Tasca has worked with multiple international organizations, including the EU Parliament.[7]

Tasca is the author of several books, including The FinTech Book, Banking Beyond Banks and Money,[12] Enabling the Internet of Value, and Digital Asset Pricing, Allocation and Regulation. He has also worked as an editor of the Journal of Risk Finance and the Journal of Digital Banking,[13][14] and is an editor for the journal, Frontiers in Blockchain.[15]

Bibliography edit

  • "REA, triple-entry accounting and blockchain: Converging paths to shared ledger systems" (The Journal of Risk and Financial Management)[16]
  • "Evolution of ESG-focused DLT Research: An NLP Analysis of the Literature"[17]
  • "Enabling the Internet of Value" (Future of Business and Finance)[18]
  • "A digital currency architecture for privacy and owner-custodianship"[19]
  • Blockchain Economics[20]
  • Banking Beyond Banks and Money[7]
  • The Internet of Value[21]

References edit

  1. ^ Matsakis, Louise (4 April 2018). "The Cryptocurrency Industry Might Actually Benefit From an Ad Ban". Wired (magazine). Retrieved 11 April 2024.
  2. ^ "La criptovaluta di Facebook è solo un wallet piccino e disfunzionale". Il Foglio.
  3. ^ "UCL ranked seventh best university globally for Blockchain". University College London. 12 October 2022. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
  4. ^ "Will blockchain technologies ever become mainstream? | Podcast". euronews. August 9, 2023.
  5. ^ d'Italia, Banca. "Banca d'Italia - Banca d'Italia e UCL, con DLT Science Foundation, organizzano il Peer-to-Peer Financial Systems Workshop - 26-27 settembre". www.bancaditalia.it.[permanent dead link]
  6. ^ "Collaborazioni università-aziende per formare i lavoratori del futuro". La Stampa. October 26, 2018.
  7. ^ a b c d e "Paolo Tasca Profile".
  8. ^ "Trading gold with Bitcoin's blockchain tech". Deutsche Welle. 2018-03-28.
  9. ^ Wilson, Tom; Carvalho, Ritvik (May 15, 2019). "Rise of smaller rivals throws up fresh challenge to bitcoin". Reuters.
  10. ^ Field, Matthew (June 26, 2019). "The tiny UK start-up founded by UCL scientists now at the heart of Facebook's Libra currency". The Telegraph.
  11. ^ "Once burned, twice keen: Scaramucci isn't giving up on crypto". Politico. 19 January 2023.
  12. ^ Chishti, Susanne; Barberis, Janos, eds. (April 1, 2016). The FinTech Book: The Financial Technology Handbook for Investors, Entrepreneurs and Visionaries. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. doi:10.1002/9781119218906. ISBN 9781119218876.
  13. ^ "Journal of Risk Finance: Vol. 19 Iss. 1". Emerald Insight.
  14. ^ Tasca, Paolo; Widmann, Sebastian (May 3, 2018). "The challenges faced by blockchain technologies — Part 2". Journal of Digital Banking. 2 (3): 259–281 – via RePEc - Econpapers.
  15. ^ Vadgama, Nikhil; Xu, Jiahua; Tasca, Paolo (2022). Enabling the Internet of Value. Cham: Springer Nature. ISBN 978-3-030-78184-2.
  16. ^ "REA, triple-entry accounting and blockchain: Converging paths to shared ledger systems". scholar.google.com.
  17. ^ "Evolution of ESG-focused DLT Research: An NLP Analysis of the Literature". scholar.google.com. 5 February 2024.
  18. ^ "Enabling the Internet of Value". scholar.google.com.
  19. ^ "A digital currency architecture for privacy and owner-custodianship". scholar.google.com.
  20. ^ Swan, Melanie; Potts, Jason; Takagi, Soichiro; Witte, Frank; Tasca, Paolo (2019). Blockchain Economics: Implications of Distributed Ledgers: Markets, Communications Networks, and Algorithmic Reality. Vol. 1. World Scientific (Europe). doi:10.1142/q0190. ISBN 978-1-78634-638-4.
  21. ^ "The Internet of Value" (PDF). blockchain.cs.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-01-25.

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