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The CBER Symposium series is sponsored by Columbia University's Center for Digital Finance and Technologies.
These events run from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM ET, typically on the third Thursday of the month. We do not conduct events during the summer nor winter.
Shea Ketsdever
(Flashbots)
MEV: Beyond Mitigation
Ciamac Moallemi
(Columbia University)
DeFi in the MEV Era: Application-Level Mitigation Strategies for MEV
Barnabé Monnot
(Ethereum Foundation)
Protocol Roles and MEV Opportunities
Moty Moravvej
(University of Calgary)
Private Settlement in Blockchain Systems
Artem Streltsov
(Cornell University)
Perpetual Futures Contracts and Cryptocurrency Market Microstructure
Qiang Wang
(Penn State University)
Does DeFi Democratize Access to Financial Services?
Nir Chemaya
(U C, Santa Barbara)
Estimating Investor Preferences for Blockchain Security
Ruizhe Jia
(Columbia University)
Price Discovery on Decentralized Exchanges
Aviv Yaish
(Hebrew University)
Speculative Denial-of-Service Attacks in Ethereum
Kristin N. Johnson
Commissioner
(Commodity Futures Trading Commission)
Scott Bauguess
VP Global Regulatory Policy
(Coinbase)
Jai Massari
Chief Legal Officer and Co-Founder
(Lightspark)
Zachory O. Fallon
Partner and Co-Founder
(Ketsal PLLC)
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
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
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
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
Evgeny Lyandres
(Tel Aviv University)
ICO Success and Post-ICO Performance
Amin Shams
(Ohio State University)
The Structure of Cryptocurrency Returns
Donghwa Shin
(University of North Carolina)
Cryptocurrency Pump-and-Dump Schemes
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