Danusha Rajapaksa

Digital Assets and Financial Markets

I am an applied economist studying how liquidity, price discovery, and shocks propagate across fragmented digital-asset markets.

My research combines transaction-level blockchain data, high-frequency market data, and structural market microstructure models to study stablecoins, arbitrage, blockchain infrastructure, decentralized market design, and financial regulation.

I completed my PhD in Applied Economics at the University of Saskatchewan in 2025. I have taught introductory macroeconomics, intermediate microeconomic theory, and Money, Banking, and Financial Markets.