The (Limited) Power of Blockchain Networks for Information Provision

The authors thank Christian Laux (discussant at the 2021 European Accounting Association Virtual Annual Congress), Dirk Simons, and Anton Sobolev as well as seminar participants at the University of Bonn, Skema Business School, the University of Graz, and the University of Mannheim for their helpful comments and suggestions. We further appreciate participants’ comments at the 2019 American Accounting Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco, the 2020 Annual Meeting of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB) in Frankfurt, and the 2021 EAA Virtual Annual Congress. The views in this paper are solely those of the authors. No responsibility for them should be attributed to the Bank of Canada.