January 20 and 21, 2025

Oxford-Harvard 

Conference on Decentralised Finance 

and Market Microstructure

at the University of Oxford

Organizers and scientific committee: Fayçal Drissi, Matheus V. X. Ferreira, Álvaro Cartea, Agostino Capponi, David C. Parkes

Blockchain technology, asset digitisation, and automated market makers are reshaping the future of the financial landscape and challenging traditional stakeholders. The conference will provide an opportunity for junior and senior leading academics in Finance, Economics, Computer Science, and industry to discuss the emerging challenges in this field with a focus on the microstructure and the design of decentralised marketplaces.



The Speakers

Guillermo Angeris

Bain Capital

Bruno Biais

HEC Paris

Agostino Capponi

Columbia University

Fayçal Drissi

University of Oxford

Zachary Feinstein

Stevens Institute of Technology

Matheus V. X. Ferreira

University of Virginia

Lioba Heimbach

ETH Zürich

Roger Lee

The University of Chicago

Igor Makarov 

London School of Economics

Mike Neuder

Ethereum Foundation

Kenneth Ng

Uniswap Foundation

Christine Parlour

Berkeley Haas

Fahad Saleh

University of Florida

 

Venue

Oxford-Man Institute
AHL Lecture Theatre, 3rd floor
Eagle House, Walton Well Rd, Oxford OX2 6ED

The Oxford-Man Institute (OMI) is a world-leading centre of interdisciplinary research in Quantitative Finance. The OMI addresses fundamental problems in finance by providing a forum for academics from various disciplines and industry participants to create and implement ideas. The OMI's objectives are to provide new insights into how markets work, and to develop new tools for financial decision making.

Conference
Oxford Man Institute

Drinks reception
Beit Room, Rhodes House

Dinner
McCall MacBain Hall

 

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