Finance and Economics Archives - Adam Shen's Musings

Posted in Crypto, Finance and Economics

Automated Market Making: An Overview

Adam Shen
posted on December 5, 2024December 5, 2024
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Automated Market Making (AMM) liquidity pools represent a groundbreaking innovation in the realm of cryptocurrencies and decentralized finance (DeFi). This novel approach addresses the inherent limitations of blockchain technology, particularly the

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Posted in Crypto, Finance and Economics

Applied Mathematics on Product Function Type AMM Liquidity Pools and Volatility

Adam Shen
posted on October 30, 2023November 6, 2023
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Abstract Here, we discuss the properties and mechanics of different types of automated market making liquidity pools including constant product, constant mean and bounded liquidity. From there, we define and show how to calculate impermanent losses

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Posted in Beliefs, Finance and Economics

Rants on Free Markets, Inefficiency, and the Value of Hard Work

Adam Shen
posted on December 16, 2020September 18, 2023
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Some views on the efficiency of the free market and how hard work is not enough

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Posted in Finance and Economics

In Defense of Scalpers

Adam Shen
posted on December 15, 2020December 16, 2020
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Why Price Scalping is Good

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Posted in Finance and Economics, Politics and Elections

Modeling Bimodal Politics: Part 2

Adam Shen
posted on November 14, 2020January 22, 2024
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Discussing political polarization with Hotelling with cost part 2: model details

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Posted in Finance and Economics, Politics and Elections

Modeling Bimodal Politics: Part 1

Adam Shen
posted on November 4, 2020November 16, 2023
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Discussing political polarization with Hotelling with cost part 1

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Posted in Finance and Economics, Politics and Elections

Finding Joy in Miserable Political Market Efficiency

Adam Shen
posted on October 22, 2020October 22, 2020
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Parallels between markets and politics

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