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2026
How to Do Research With AI: An Austrian Capital Theory ApproachBerg, C. (2026) · Australian Economic Papers 65(3): 340–348Dynamic Capabilities and the Knowledge Problem of Ex Ante Platform RegulationAllen, D.W.E. and Berg, C. (2026) · Working paper, SSRNGeneral-purpose Computing Causes Regulatory Object InstabilityBerg, C. (2026) · Working paper, SSRNThe Economics of Blockchain Shared SecurityAllen, D.W.E., Berg, C. and Davidson, S. (2026) · in Cryptoeconomic Theory, World Scientific, pp. 35–51Rent Seeking as a Response to Multisided Market Collapse: The Case of Australia’s News Media Bargaining RegimeAllen, D.W.E. and Berg, C. (2026) · Working paper, SSRNThe AI Paperclip Maximiser as Constitutional Political EconomyBerg, C. and Allen, D.W.E. (2026) · Working paper, SSRNDAOs Are Adaptive Governance EnginesAllen, D.W., Berg, C., Lane, A.M. and Potts, J. (2026) · in Foundations of Decentralized Organizations, Oxford University Press, pp. 123–140From Closed to Open Regulatory Sandboxes: Why Default and Altering Rules MatterAllen, D.W.E., Berg, C. and Lane, A.M. (2026) · Working paper, SSRN2025
The Blockchain Treasury Governance DilemmaAllen, D.W.E., Berg, C. and Lane, A.M. (2025) · Regulation & Governance 19(3): 761–776Shadow User Innovation: Governing Covert Generative-AI Use for Dynamic-Capability RenewalWaters-Lynch, J., Allen, D.W.E., Berg, C. and Potts, J. (2025) · Innovation: Organization & Management: 1–172024
Open problems in DAOsBerg, C., Tan, J., Merk, T., Hubbard, S., Oak, E.R. et al. (2024) · Working paper, arXivTowards legal recognition of Decentralised Autonomous OrganisationsAllen, D.W.E., Berg, C. and Lane, A.M. (2024) · Australian Business Law Review 52: 96–116Common knowledge theory of stablecoinsBerg, C., Potts, J. and White, C. (2024) · Working paper, SSRNVoting with time commitment for decentralized governance: Bond voting as a Sybil-resistant mechanismMohan, V., Khezr, P. and Berg, C. (2024) · Management Science 70(12): 8709–8734InteroperabilityBerg, C. (2024) · Internet Policy Review 13(2)2023
Institutions to constrain chaotic robots: why generative AI needs blockchainBerg, C., Davidson, S. and Potts, J. (2023) · Working paper, SSRNThe exchange theory of web3 governanceAllen, D.W.E., Berg, C., Lane, A.M., MacDonald, T. and Potts, J. (2023) · Kyklos 76(4): 659–675Large language models reduce agency costsAllen, D.W.E., Berg, C., Ilyushina, N. and Potts, J. (2023) · Working paper, SSRNThe problem of ubiquitous computing for regulatory costsBerg, C. (2023) · Working paper, SSRNWhy airdrop cryptocurrency tokens?Allen, D.W.E., Berg, C. and Lane, A.M. (2023) · Journal of Business Research 163: 113945The Case for Generative AI in Scholarly PracticeBerg, C. (2023) · Working paper, SSRNReview: Voting over a Distributed Ledger: An Interdisciplinary PerspectiveBerg, C. (2023) · Journal of Economic Literature 61(1): 295–2972022
Repugnant innovationAllen, D.W.E., Berg, C. and Davidson, S. (2022) · Journal of Institutional Economics 19(6): 918–929Buyback and Burn Mechanisms: Price Manipulation or Value Signalling?Allen, D.W.E., Berg, C. and Davidson, S. (2022) · Working paper, SSRNCrypto-macroeconomicsPotts, J., Berg, C. and Davidson, S. (2022) · Book chaptersInteroperability as a critical design choice for central bank digital currenciesBerg, C. (2022) · Working paper, SSRNOn Coase and COVID-19Allen, D.W.E., Berg, C., Davidson, S. and Potts, J. (2022) · European Journal of Law and Economics 54(1): 107–1252021
Trust and Governance in Collective Blockchain TreasuriesBerg, C., Allen, D.W.E. and Lane, A.M. (2021) · Working paper, SSRNProperty Rights, Knowledge Commons, and Blockchain GovernanceAllen, D.W.E., Berg, C., Davidson, S. and Potts, J. (2021) · in Dekker, E. and Kuchař, P. (eds) Governing Markets as Knowledge Commons, Cambridge University Press, pp. 159–175Setting the reserve price for the Tracer DAO Gnosis auctionBerg, C. and Khezr, P. (2021) · Working paperAn economic theory of blockchain foundationsPotts, J., Allen, D.W.E., Berg, C., Davidson, S. and MacDonald, T. (2021) · Working paper, SSRNRentseeking in blockchain governance: the awkward transition from market decisionmaking to non-market decisionmakingBerg, C. (2021) · Working paper, SSRNQuantum crypto-economics: Blockchain prediction markets for the evolution of quantum technologyRohde, P., Mohan, V., Davidson, S., Berg, C., Allen, D. et al. (2021) · Working paper, arXiv2020
Commitment voting: a mechanism for intensity of preference revelation and long-term commitment in blockchain governanceBerg, C., Davidson, S. and Potts, J. (2020) · Working paper, SSRNThe Hart asset at the heart of your organisationDavidson, S., Berg, C. and Potts, J. (2020) · Working paper, SSRNThe Political Economy of Australian Regulatory ReformAllen, D.W.E., Berg, C., Lane, A.M. and McLaughlin, P.A. (2020) · Australian Journal of Public Administration 80(1): 114–137Exit, Voice, and ForkingBerg, A. and Berg, C. (2020) · Cosmos + Taxis 8(8+9): 76–89The Cryptoeconomics of Cities, Data and SpaceAllen, D.W.E., Berg, C., Jowett, K., Novak, M. and Potts, J. (2020) · Cosmos + Taxis 8(8+9): 117–129Trustless architecture and the V-form organisationBerg, C., Davidson, S. and Potts, J. (2020) · Working paper, SSRNPanic, Information and Quantity Assurance in a PandemicMohan, V., Berg, C. and Poblet, M. (2020) · Working paper, SSRNThe problem of ‘freezing’ an economy in a pandemicAllen, D.W.E., Berg, C., Davidson, S., Lane, A.M. and Potts, J. (2020) · Working paper, SSRNBlockchain Governance: What we can Learn from the Economics of Corporate GovernanceAllen, D.W.E. and Berg, C. (2020) · Journal of the British Blockchain Association 3(1)Identity technologies: A transaction cost approachBerg, C., Davidson, S. and Potts, J. (2020) · Working paper, SSRNBlockchain and Investment: An Austrian ApproachAllen, D.W.E., Berg, C., Davidson, S. and Potts, J. (2020) · The Review of Austrian Economics 34(1): 149–162Proof of work as a three sided marketBerg, C., Davidson, S. and Potts, J. (2020) · Frontiers in Blockchain 3Blockchain and the Evolution of Institutional Technologies: Implications for Innovation PolicyAllen, D.W.E., Berg, C., Markey-Towler, B., Novak, M. and Potts, J. (2020) · Research Policy 49(1): 103865Blockchains and Constitutional CatallaxyBerg, A., Berg, C. and Novak, M. (2020) · Constitutional Political Economy 31(2): 188–2042019
Blockchain technology as economic infrastructure: Revisiting the electronic markets hypothesisBerg, C., Davidson, S. and Potts, J. (2019) · Frontiers in Blockchain 2Capitalism after SatoshiBerg, C., Davidson, S. and Potts, J. (2019) · Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy 9(2): 152–164Blockchain and the New Economics of HealthcareAllen, D., Berg, C., Pochesneva, A. and Potts, J. (2019) · Working paper, SSRNInternational policy coordination for blockchain supply chainsAllen, D.W.E., Berg, C., Davidson, S., Novak, M. and Potts, J. (2019) · Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies 6(3): 367–380Some Economic Consequences of the GDPRAllen, D.W.E., Berg, A., Berg, C., Markey‐Towler, B. and Potts, J. (2019) · Economics Bulletin 39(2): 785–797Byzantine political economyBerg, C., Davidson, S. and Potts, J. (2019) · Working paper, SSRNBlockchains and institutional layering as a new approach to economic developmentAllen, D. and Berg, C. (2019) · Working paper, SSRNTowards Crypto-friendly Public PolicyBerg, C., Davidson, S. and Potts, J. (2019) · in Blockchain Economics: Implications of Distributed Ledgers, World Scientific, pp. 215–232Britain and Western Civilisation in Australian Undergraduate History Courses: An Institutional ApproachBerg, C. and d’Abrera, B. (2019) · Book chapters2018
Blockchains as Constitutional OrdersBerg, C., Davidson, S. and Potts, J. (2018) · in Wagner, R.E. (eds) James M. Buchanan: A Theorist of Political Economy and Social Philosophy, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 383–397From Industry Associations to Ecosystem Associations: Blockchain, Interest Groups and Public ChoiceBerg, C., Novak, M., Potts, J. and Thomas, S.J. (2018) · Working paper, SSRNOutsourcing vertical integration: Distributed ledgers and the V-form organisationBerg, C., Davidson, S. and Potts, J. (2018) · Working paper, SSRNBlockchain: An entangled political economy approachAllen, D.W.E., Berg, C. and Novak, M. (2018) · Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice 33(2): 105–125Crypto Public ChoiceBerg, A., Berg, C. and Novak, M. (2018) · Working paper, SSRNImagining the Blockchain EconomyBerg, C., Davidson, S. and Potts, J. (2018) · Meanjin 77(2): 104–109Institutional Discovery and Competition in the Evolution of Blockchain TechnologyBerg, C., Davidson, S. and Potts, J. (2018) · Working paper, SSRNCryptodemocracy and its institutional possibilitiesAllen, D.W.E., Berg, C., Lane, A.M. and Potts, J. (2018) · The Review of Austrian Economics 33(3): 363–374Introduction to Australia’s Red Tape CrisisAllen, D.W.E. and Berg, C. (2018) · in Allen, D.W.E. and Berg, C. (eds) Australia’s Red Tape Crisis: The causes and costs of over-regulation, Connor Court PublishingRegulation and Technological ChangeBerg, C. and Allen, D. (2018) · in Darcy WE Allen and Chris Berg (eds) Australia’s Red Tape Crisis: The causes and costs of over-regulation, Connor Court PublishingRegulation and Red Tape in a Small Open Economy: An Australian OverviewBerg, C. (2018) · in Allen, D.W.E. and Berg, C. (eds) Australia’s Red Tape Crisis: The causes and costs of over-regulation, Connor Court Publishing, pp. 9–27Identity as Input to ExchangeBerg, A., Berg, C., Davidson, S. and Potts, J. (2018) · Working paper, SSRNLiberalism is Enduring and UrgentBerg, C. (2018) · Working paper, SSRNBeyond Money: Cryptocurrencies, Machine-Mediated Transactions and High Frequency BarteringBerg, C., Davidson, S. and Potts, J. (2018) · Working paper, SSRNLedgersBerg, C., Davidson, S. and Potts, J. (2018) · Working paper, SSRNA Genuine Commercial Justification for Interchange FeesBerg, C., Davidson, S. and Potts, J. (2018) · Working paper, SSRNSome public economics of blockchain technologyBerg, C., Davidson, S. and Potts, J. (2018) · Working paper, SSRN2017
Adam Smith and Jeremy Bentham in the Australian ColoniesBerg, C. (2017) · History of Economics Review 68(1): 2–16Subjective Political EconomyAllen, D.W.E. and Berg, C. (2017) · New Perspectives on Political Economy 13(1-2): 19–40What Diplomacy in the Ancient Near East Can Tell Us About Blockchain TechnologyBerg, C. (2017) · Ledger 2: 55–64Blockchains Industrialise TrustBerg, C., Davidson, S. and Potts, J. (2017) · Working paper, SSRNThe Institutional Economics of IdentityBerg, A., Berg, C., Davidson, S. and Potts, J. (2017) · Working paper, SSRNNudging, calculation, and utopiaBerg, C. and Davidson, S. (2017) · Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy 1(Special issue): 49–52Populism and Democracy: A Transaction Cost Diagnosis and a Cryptodemocracy TreatmentBerg, C. (2017) · Working paper, SSRNIs science the answer?Keane, M.J. and Berg, C. (2017) · British Journal of Anaesthesia 119(6): 1081–1084Delegation and Unbundling in a Crypto-DemocracyBerg, C. (2017) · Working paper, SSRNAn Institutional Theory of Free SpeechBerg, C. (2017) · Working paper, SSRN“Stop This Greed”: The Tax-Avoidance Political Campaign in the OECD and AustraliaBerg, C. and Davidson, S. (2017) · Econ Journal Watch 14(1): 77–1022016
Safety and Soundness: An economic history of prudential bank regulation in Australia, 1893-2008Berg, C. (2016) · PhD thesis, RMIT UniversitySection 18C, Human Rights, and Media Reform: An Institutional Analysis of the 2011–13 Australian Free Speech DebateBerg, C. and Davidson, S. (2016) · Agenda – A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform 23(1)Evidence-based medicine: A predictably flawed paradigmKeane, M. and Berg, C. (2016) · Trends in Anaesthesia and Critical Care 9: 49–52The Campbell Committee and the origins of ‘deregulation’ in AustraliaBerg, C. (2016) · Australian Journal of Political Science 51(4): 711–726
