9 papers
Comparing Smart Contract Paradigms: A Preliminary Study of Security and Developer Experience
Matteo Vaccargiu, Andrea Pinna, Maria Ilaria Lunesu +1
Smart contract vulnerabilities have caused billions in financial losses, raising questions about whether programming language paradigms can reduce security overhead. While imperati…
Efficiency for Experts, Visibility for Newcomers: A Case Study of Label-Code Alignment in Kubernetes
Matteo Vaccargiu, Sabrina Aufiero, Silvia Bartolucci +3
Labels on platforms such as GitHub support triage and coordination, yet little is known about how well they align with code modifications or how such alignment affects collaboratio…
A calibrated model of debt recycling with interest costs and tax shields: viability under different fiscal regimes and jurisdictions
Carlo von der Osten, Sabrina Aufiero, Pierpaolo Vivo +2
Debt recycling is a leveraged equity management strategy in which homeowners use accumulated home equity to finance investments, applying the resulting returns to accelerate mortga…
Mapping Microscopic and Systemic Risks in TradFi and DeFi: a literature review
Sabrina Aufiero, Silvia Bartolucci, Fabio Caccioli +1
This work explores the formation and propagation of systemic risks across traditional finance (TradFi) and decentralized finance (DeFi), offering a comparative framework that bridg…
Top eigenpair statistics of diluted Wishart matrices
Barak Budnick, Preben Forer, Pierpaolo Vivo +3
Using the replica method, we compute the statistics of the top eigenpair of diluted covariance matrices of the form , where is a…
Cryptocurrencies in the Balance Sheet: Insights from (Micro)Strategy -- Bitcoin Interactions
Sabrina Aufiero, Antonio Briola, Tesfaye Salarin +3
This paper investigates the evolving link between cryptocurrency and equity markets in the context of the recent wave of corporate Bitcoin (BTC) treasury strategies. We assemble a…