Bitcoin as an Emerging Financial Paradigm
A special issue of Journal of Risk and Financial Management (ISSN 1911-8074). This special issue belongs to the section "Financial Technology and Innovation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 3
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Bitcoin; environmental economics; environmental policy; horizon scanning; institutional analysis; ocean policy; science policy interface
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2. Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Yamato University, Katayama-cho, Suita 564-0082, Japan
Interests: applied time series analysis; empirical finance; data science; international finance
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Bitcoin has moved beyond its origins as a cryptographic experiment to become a global asset that unsettles long-standing frameworks in economics, risk management, and monetary policy. As an asset with fixed supply, decentralized governance, accelerating adoption, and global payment rails, Bitcoin introduces dynamics that differ fundamentally from fiat-based systems.
This Bitcoin-focused Special Issue seeks to assess Bitcoin’s role as an emerging financial paradigm with implications for banking, financial markets, and risk management. Key areas include its function as a hedge against sovereign debt, debasement, and inflationary pressures; its potential role in fiscal and monetary discipline; the impact of Bitcoin Layer 2 protocols for decentralized payment systems; and its integration into corporate and sovereign treasuries, ETFs, and other engineered products as part of its financialization process. Research is also needed on systemic risks arising from large-scale adoption, volatility spillovers, and the regulatory and cross-border uncertainties that shape market outcomes.
By bringing together diverse empirical, theoretical, and policy-oriented papers, this Special Issue aims to advance the understanding of how Bitcoin reshapes assumptions about money, markets, and risk. The collection will serve as a reference point for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners assessing how Bitcoin intersects with established financial systems and future economic structures.
Prof. Dr. Murray A. Rudd
Prof. Dr. Shigeyuki Hamori
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Bitcoin
- corporate treasuries
- debasement hedge
- exchange-traded funds (ETFs)
- financial engineering
- financial markets
- inflation hedge
- institutional adoption
- monetary policy
- portfolio allocation
- risk management
- strategic reserves
- systemic risk
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