To promote research on the emerging issues that relate to distributed ledger technologies such as blockchains, cryptocurrencies, digital payments, network security, etc., the Crypto and Blockchain Economics Research (CBER) Forum, in collaboration with Management Science, FinTech at Cornell - an Initiative of the SC Johnson College of Business, and FinHub - the University of Toronto Rotman’s Financial Innovation Lab, will convene a virtual research conference to feature eight interdisciplinary research papers examining topics within the scope of blockchain and crypto economics, broadly defined. The conference will feature one best paper prize and one best discussant prize with the generous support from the FinTech Initiative at Cornell.
Submissions to this conference have the option to be considered both for the conference program and, separately, for an invitation for submission to the Management Science Special Issue on Blockchain and Crypto Economics through a dual submission process. Any submission to the Management Science Special Issue following an invitation will undergo the standard journal review process, but any paper rejected in that process may be submitted to Management Science again in the future.
The deadline for conference submissions is February 1, 2021 and authors will be notified with decisions by March 15, 2021. Conference organizers will finalize the program based on feedback from program committee members. Program committee feedback for a filtered set of submissions will be passed to the sponsoring editors from the special issue for them to make decisions regarding invitations for submission to Management Science. The sponsoring editors will have no role in the review and decisions on conference papers, but may ask conference organizers, program committee members, and participants to review submissions to the special issue. The deadline for invited submissions is May 15, 2021, the same as the deadline for the special issue.
Management Science SI Collaborating Editors:
Bruno Biais, HEC Paris
Agostino Capponi, Columbia University
Lin William Cong, Cornell University
Vishal Gaur, Cornell University
Kay Giesecke, Stanford University
Program Committee
Matthieu Bouvard, Toulouse School of Economics
Jonathan Chiu, Bank of Canada
Yao Cui, Cornell University
Deeksha Gupta, Carnegie Mellon University
Hanna Halaburda, New York University
Campbell Harvey, Duke University
Zhiguo He, University of Chicago
Sabrina Howell, New York University
Gur Huberman, Columbia University
Kose John, New York University
Mariana Khapko, University of Toronto
Thorsten Koeppel, Queens University
Steven Kou, Boston University
Jacob Leshno, University of Chicago
Jongsub Lee, Seoul National University
Alfred Lehar, University of Calgary
Jiasun Li, George Mason University
Tao Li, University of Florida
Yukun Liu, University of Rochester
Laura Liu, Peking University
Evgeny Lyandres, Boston University
Katya Malinova, McMaster University
Emiliano Pagnotta, Imperial College of London
Christine Parlour, University of California Berkeley
Linda Schilling, Ecole Polytechnique
Amin Shams, Ohio State University
Katrin Tinn, McGill University
Wei Xiong, Princeton University
Baozhong Yang, Georgia State University
David Yermack, New York University
Ariel Zetlin-Jones, Carnegie Mellon University
Marius Zoican, University of Toronto
