To register for Day 2 of the CBER Conference on Saturday, April 17, visit: https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eg4ksl1hTwCF-L6icPgy1Q
Agenda:
Day 1 - Friday, April 16, 2021
Host: Andreas Park (University of Toronto)
Introductory Remarks (10:00 AM EST - 10:05 AM EST)
Session 1: Cryptocurrency Forensics (10:05 AM EST - 11:35 AM EST)
Session Chair: Kose John (New York University)
Crypto Wash Trading
by Lin William Cong (Cornell University), Xi Li (University of Newcastle), Ke Tang (Tsinghua University) and Yang Yang (Tsinghua University)
Discussant: Deeksha Gupta (Carnegie Mellon University)
Increased Transparency of the Global Financial System: Evidence from Terrorist Attacks Financing Detection in Blockchain-based Currencies
by Dan Amiram (Tel Aviv University), Bjorn Jorgensen (Copenhagen Business School) and Daniel Rabetti (Tel Aviv University)
Discussant: Andrew Wu (University of Michigan)
Break (11:35 AM EST - 11:40 AM EST)
Keynote Speech (11:40 AM EST - 12:40 PM EST)
Campbell Harvey (Duke University) presents "DeFi and the Future of Finance"
Moderator: David Yermack (New York University)
Break (12:40 PM EST - 12:45 PM EST)
Session 2: Blockchain and Money (12:45 PM EST - 2:15 PM EST)
Session Chair: Christine Parlour (UC Berkeley)
Permissioned Distributed Ledgers and the Governance of Money
by Raphael Auer (Bank for International Settlements), Cyril Monnet (University of Bern) and Hyun Song Shin (Bank for International Settlements)
Discussant: Aleksander Berentsen (University of Basel)
Central Bank Digital Currency: When Price and Bank Stability Collide
by Linda Schilling (Ecole Polytechnique), Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde (University of Pennsylvania) and Harald Uhlig (University of Chicago)
Discussant: Katrin Tinn (McGill University)
Agenda for Day 2 - Saturday, April 17, 2021
Host: Gideon Saar (Cornell University)
Session 3: Beyond Bitcoin (10:00 AM EST - 11:30 AM EST)
Session Chair: Garud Iyengar (Columbia University)
To Infinity and Beyond: Financing Platforms with Uncapped Crypto Tokens
by Rowena Gan (Southern Methodist University), Gerry Tsoukalas (University of Pennsylvania) and Serguei Netessine (University of Pennsylvania)
Discussant: Yao Cui (Cornell University)
(R)Evolution in Entrepreneurial Finance? The Relationship between Cryptocurrency and Venture Capital Markets
by Kirill Shakhnov (University of Surrey) and Luana Zaccaria (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance)
Discussant: Evgeny Lyandres (Tel Aviv University)
Break (11:30 AM EST - 11:35 AM EST)
Session 4: Mining and Welfare (11:35 AM EST - 1:05 PM EST)
Session Chair: Wei Xiong (Princeton University)
When Cryptomining Comes to Town: High Electricity-Use Spillovers to the Local Economy
by Matteo Benetton (UC Berkeley), Giovanni Compiani (University of Chicago) and Adair Morse (UC Berkeley)
Discussant: Hanna Halaburda (New York University)
StableFees: A Predictable Fee Market for Cryptocurrencies
by Soumya Basu (Cornell University), David Easley (Cornell Univeristy), Maureen O'Hara (Cornell University) and Emin Gun Sirer (Cornell University)
Discussant: Mariana Khapko (University of Toronto)
Break (1:05 PM EST - 1:10 PM EST)
Keynote Speech (1:10 PM EST - 2:10 PM EST)
Elaine Shi (Carnegie Mellon University) presents "Foundations of Distributed Consensus and Blockchains"
Moderator: Gur Huberman (Columbia University)
Awards Ceremony (2:10 PM EST - 2:15 PM EST)
Presented by Andrew Karolyi (Acting Dean and Dean of Academic A airs, SC Johnson College of Business)
For full details on the CBER Conference visit: https://www.cber-forum.org/conference
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