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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.
Upcoming Symposiums
Investing in Decentralized Finance
February 16 2023
Hosted by Kose John (NYU Stern)

Brett Hemenway Falk
(University of Pennsylvania)
Economics of NFTs: The Value of Creator Royalties

Donghwa Shin
(University of North Carolina)
Reaching for Yield in Decentralized Financial Markets
Previous Symposiums

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

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

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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