In this working paper, Bachman, Chakravorti, Rane, and Thyagarajan propose an incentive mechanism to remove CO2 from the atmosphere using direct air carbon capture and storage technology using distributed ledger technology.
Sujit Chakravorti presented his joint paper with Joey Biasi, titled "The Future of Cryptotokens," at the World Banking and Finance Symposium in New Delhi in December 2019.
Carbó, Chakravorti, and Rodriguez study the impact of lowering interchange fees on consumer and merchant adoption and usage along with bank revenues during a ten-year period in Spain using bank-level data. Using cutting-edge econometric techniques, they are able to test two-sided market model predictions about payment card pricing policies. They...
Chakravorti and To construct a two-period model to study the interactions among consumers, merchants, and a card issuer. The model yields the following results. First, if the issuer's cost of funds is not too high and the merchant's profit margin is sufficiently high, in every equilibrium of our model the...
Chakravorti investigates payments system reforms begun by the Bank of Mexico in 1994. The goals of these reforms are to reduce the amount of uncollateralized intraday credit extended by the Bank of Mexico (previously unlimited), to promote a market-based allocation of intraday credit for interbank payments, and to move large-value...