Daniel Rabetti
Highlights:
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Upcoming: 2027 AFA Annual Meeting, "Crypto Capture of Foreign Aid", Washington, D.C., USA.
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Policy Roundtable: Wharton Future of Finance Initiative "Tokenizing Real-World-Assets" Paper and Webinar.
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Featured: Harvard Working Knowledge article Crypto Is Growing Up. Are Companies Ready?
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Award: Best Paper in Corporate Finance Award at the SFS Cavalcade
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Meetings: EAA 2026 (Panel) on EAR Digital Assets, Prague, Czech Republic; AAA 2026 (Panel) on Crypto Assets, Las Vegas, USA
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NBER Posted: "Digital Safe Havens: The Economics of Tokenized Treasuries"
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Teaching: Joint lecture with PwC for BMT5207 Audit Analytics
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Presented: 2025 Journal of Accounting and Economics Conference, "Auditing Smart contracts", Wharton University, Pennsylvania, USA
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Awarded Top 10 Most Cited Papers in the Journal of Accounting Research
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Scholars' response to the U.S. Congress's Request for Information on Taxation of Digital Assets
Bio:
Daniel Rabetti is originally from São Paulo, Brazil. He holds a Ph.D. in Business from Tel Aviv University and joined the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School in 2023 as the S. Dhanabalan Chair in Quantitative Studies and Assistant Professor in Accounting and Finance. He holds a Presidential Young Professorship (PYP) and is a Fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER).
Professor Rabetti’s research examines how emerging technologies reshape the production, verification, and governance of financial information. His work lies at the intersection of accounting, auditing, and financial markets, with a particular focus on how blockchain, decentralized finance (DeFi), and artificial intelligence affect financial reporting, audit processes, and the transparency of digital financial systems. More broadly, his research studies how new technological infrastructures transform traditional mechanisms of information verification, disclosure, and regulatory oversight.
He has presented his research at major monetary policy and regulatory institutions, including the IMF, SEC, OCC, Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Banca d’Italia, Bank of Japan, Monetary Authority of Singapore, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, and Danmarks Nationalbank. His work contributes to policy discussions on tokenization, crypto and blockchain-based finance, investor protection, information economics, and the taxation of digital assets. His research has also informed responses to U.S. congressional requests for information on digital-asset taxation and broader U.S. government policy discussions on crypto and digital assets.
Professor Rabetti’s research has been presented at leading academic conferences, including JAR, JAE, ABFER, AFA, SFS Cavalcade, MDF, and WFA. He has also participated in major panels and policy roundtables, including the Crypto Assets Panel at the 2026 AAA Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, the Digital Assets Panel at the 2026 EAA Annual Meeting in Prague, and the 2026 Wharton Future of Finance Institute roundtable bringing together academics, policymakers, and regulators, where he presented his research on the tokenization of real-world assets.
His research has been accepted for publication in leading academic journals, including the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting & Economics, Management Science, and Journal of International Business Studies. His work has also been featured in major media outlets, including Bloomberg, The Washington Post, Financial Times, Reuters, The Straits Times, and CNA.
Before joining NUS Business School, Professor Rabetti was a visiting scholar at Cornell University through the Cornell Fintech Initiative and DEFT Labs. Beyond academia, he advises fintech ventures in the blockchain space and enjoys football and Portuguese literature.