CRYPTO AND BLOCKCHAIN ECONOMICS RESEARCH FORUM
Symposiums are monthly events that run from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM EST, typically on the third Thursday of the month. We do not conduct events during the summer nor winter.
DeFi on Ethereum
November 17 2022
Hosted by David Yermack (NYU Stern)
Lin William Cong
(Cornell University)
Inclusion and Democratization Through Web3 and DeFi? Initial Evidence from the Ethereum Ecosystem
Alfred Lehar
(University of Calgary)
Systemic Fragility in Decentralized Markets
Decentralized Exchanges
October 20 2022
Hosted by Leonid Kogan (MIT)
Anthony Zhang
(University of Chicago)
Automated Market Making and Loss-Versus-Rebalancing
Fahad Saleh
(Wake Forest University)
The Need for Fees at a DEX
Token Classification
September 15 2022
Hosted by Amin Shams (Ohio State University)
Andrew Karolyi
(Cornell University)
Value Premium, Network Adoption, and Factor Pricing of Crypto Assets
Yukun Liu
(University of Rochester)
The Economics of Non-Fungible Tokens
Digital Currency Competition
April 21 2022
Hosted by Aleh Tsyvinski (Yale University)
Lin William Cong
(Cornell University)
The Coming Battle of Digital Currencies
Darrell Duffie
(Stanford University)
Digital Currencies: China and the United States at a Crossroads
Auditing Economic Mechanisms
March 17 2022
Hosted by Hanna Halaburda (NYU Stern)
Cathy Barrera
(Prysm Group)
Bridging the CS-Economics Gap in Layer 1 Protocol Assumptions
Yujie Qian
(Prysm Group)
Incentives and Information in Dapps
Alternatives to Proof-of-Work
February 17 2022
Hosted by Matt Weinberg (Princeton University)
Thomas Rivera
(McGill University)
Equilibrium Staking Levels in a Proof-of-Stake Blockchain
Brett Hemenway Falk
(University of Pennsylvania)
Scaling Blockchains: Can Elected Committees Help?
Hanna Halaburda
(NYU Stern)
An Economic Model of Consensus on Distributed Ledgers
Governance and Meaning of Blockchain Technology
October 21 2021
Hosted by Hanna Halaburda (NYU Stern)
Semi Min
(NYU Stern)
Coevolution of Meaning and Technologies in the Diffusion of Blockchain
Daniel Obermeier
(TUM)
Smart Contracts on a Blockchain
Ying-Ying Hsieh
(Imperial College)
Governance in Blockchain-based Distributed Platforms
DeFi: Front-Running, Incentives and Cyclical Arbitrage
September 16 2021
Hosted by Arash Aloosh (NEOMA)
Arthur Gervais
(Imperial College)
Quantifying Blockchain Extractable Value: How dark is the forest?
David Siska
(Vega and U Edinburgh)
Market Based Mechanisms for Incentivising Exchange Liquidity Provision
Ye Wang
(ETH Zurich)
Cyclic Arbitrage in Decentralized Exchanges
Christoph Spaenjers
(HEC Paris)
NFTs: Modern Masterpieces— or Money for Nothing?
Josh Fairfield
(Washington and Lee U)
Digital + Unique:
Law, History, and Modern Framework
Nitin Gaur
(IBM Digital Assets)
The Next Generation of Non-custodial Services
Central Bank Digital Currencies
May 20 2021
Hosted by Andreas Park (University of Toronto)
Angelika Welte
(Bank of Canada)
Distributional Effects of Payment Card Pricing and Merchant Cost Pass-Through in the United States and Canada
Martin Schneider
(Stanford University)
Credit lines, bank deposits or CBDC? Competition & efficiency in modern payment systems
Joseph Bonneau
(New York University)
Hostile Blockchain Takeovers
Savva Shanaev
(Northumbria University)
Cryptocurrency Value and 51% Attacks: Evidence from Event Studies
Klaus Grobys
(University of Vaasa)
On the Tail Risk of Cyberattacks in the Bitcoin Market
Jiasun Li
(George Mason University)
Digital Tokens and Platform Building
Ye Li
(Ohio State University)
Token-based Platform Finance
Simon Mayer
(Erasmus University)
Token-Based Platforms and Speculators
Blockchain for Supply Chains
October 15 2020
Hosted by Fahad Saleh (Wake Forest University)
Volodymyr Babich
(Georgetown University)
Distributed Ledgers and Operations: What Operations Management Researchers Should Know About Blockchain Technology
Yao Cui
(Cornell University)
Value and Design of Traceability-Driven Blockchains
Empirical Patterns in Cryptoasset Markets
September 17 2020
Hosted by Lin William Cong (Cornell University)
Evgeny Lyandres
(Tel Aviv University)
ICO Success and Post-ICO Performance
Amin Shams
(Ohio State University)
The Structure of Cryptocurrency Returns
