Trust the Name: Demonstrating Material Value Added by Management Using Intangible Flows Maps – A Case from the Blockchain Smart Contracts Industry.

Posted: 10 Jan 2017 Last revised: 28 Jan 2017

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Percy Venegas

Economy Monitor

Tomas Krabec

Škoda Auto University - Department of Finance and Accounting

Date Written: December 26, 2016

Abstract

We postulate that since in complex networks preferential attachment follows fitness, and fitness follows visibility, then the path to value is traceable even for intangible assets. We first focus on a complex economic system – the market for smart contract platforms - and then move to generalize the principle for intelligent systems that perceive and sense, learn and reason, and act – being those fully machine based, or hybrid human-machine. Specifically, we demonstrate how to find evidence for predictability on how the personal brand of a company CEO is tied to its performance; for this we use the time series-network duality (Visibility Graph), and we apply financial risk forecasting to further discriminate for randomness. The result is a heuristic to probe value created by management authority, but it is compatible with any other signals obtained by public opinion mining. Furthermore, this approach demonstrates how context awareness, in the form of semantic flux, can be used for detecting material value in intangible flows when signals are created and modified by intelligent agents (including those automated in distributed ledgers).

Keywords: behavioral finance, blockchain smart contracts, fields finance, machine learning, complex networks, statistical mechanics

JEL Classification: G02

Suggested Citation

Venegas, Percy and Krabec, Tomas, Trust the Name: Demonstrating Material Value Added by Management Using Intangible Flows Maps – A Case from the Blockchain Smart Contracts Industry. (December 26, 2016). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2895778 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2895778

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