Juan Beccuti, Ph.D.

Expert Fellow

Biography

Juan Beccuti is an Expert Fellow with the Center for Cryptoeconomics. Juan's expertise is in microeconomics and industrial organization. His main interests are in contract theory, contest theory, dynamic pricing, and auctions. He also analyzes economic incentives in blockchain markets and protocols.

Juan holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid with a dissertation about mechanism design. He also has a degree in industrial engineering.

Work Experience

Expert Fellow, Center for Cryptoeconomics (2022 – )
Senior Economist, Center for Cryptoeconomics (2016 – 2021)
Researcher and Lecturer, University of Bern (2021 – 2022)
Postdoctoral Associate, University of Bern (2013 – 2021)
Research and Teaching Assistant, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2008 – 2013)
Senior Analyst, Risk Management. Duke Energy International (2004 – 2006)
Senior Analyst, Business Development. TGN S.A. (1999 – 2004)

Education

Ph.D. in Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2014)
M.Sc. in Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2008)
Industrial Engineer, Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (1999)

Publications (Selection)

Beccuti Juan, Möller Marc (2021). Screening by Mode of Trade. Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 129, 400-420.

Beccuti Juan, Möller Marc (2018). Dynamic Adverse Selection with a Patient Seller. Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 173, 95-117.

Beccuti Juan, Möller Marc (2020). Fighting for Lemons: The Encouragement Effect in Dynamic Contests with Private Information. Discussion Paper 2017.

Beccuti Juan (2020). On the Optimality of Price Posting in Rental Markets. Discussion Paper 2007.

Jaag Christian, Beccuti Juan, Funk Michael (2018). Economic Analysis of Havven’s White Paper. Report for Synthetix (former Havven).

Beccuti Juan, Jaag Christian (2017). The Bitcoin Mining Game: On the Optimality of Honesty in Proof-of-work Consensus Mechanism. Swiss Economics Working paper 60.

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Projects (selection)

The Ethereum Issuance Curve and its Impact on Validators (2024). What effect does a change in Ethereum's issuance curve have on the degree of decentralisation in Ethereum's validator set? Swiss Economics is investigating this question as part of cyber.Fund's MVI Grants Program. Client: cyber.Fund.
Tokenomics for a Carbon Offset Trading Platform (2021). ChangeBlock aims to provide a platform that facilitates trading carbon offsets and allowances.
Tokenomics for a Metaverse Platform (2021 – 2022). Consulting project for a metaverse platform that offers users immersive experiences through a VR headset.
Platform and Monetary Economics for Verasity (2018 – 2019). Verasity developed the Proof-of-View blockchain technology and an ad-tech solution to prevent ad fraud on various video platforms. Furthermore, they created a platform for e-sport broadcasts with which they could also test their ad tech solution.
Protocol Design Support for Havven (Synthetix) (2018 – 2019). Havven, rebranded as Synthetix, is a decentralized payment network enabling cryptocurrency purchases.
Development of a synthetic stable coin (Synthetix) (2018). How to design incentives of a token such that it's value represent another asset? Client: Synthetix.io (former Havven).

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