Settlement Infrastructure, Inside Money Elasticity, and the Network Economics of Distributed Ledger Technology

Michail Samawi

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Abstract: We construct the Settlement Modernisation Index, a panel dataset of 809 reform events across 24 advanced economies between 1993 and 2024, decomposed into three economic channels and three adoption phases. We document an S-curve in inside money elasticity with two interior turning points at SMI = 0.27 and 0.93, separating a liberation phase, a post-global-financial-crisis compliance valley, and a mature-infrastructure recovery phase. We show that settlement modernisation generates network-conditional balance sheet efficiencies through a T2S event-study with year-by-year EMIR decomposition (saturation beta = +0.557, p

Date: 2026-07
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