2020-21 Series
Previous Webinars
Wednesday April 14th at 14:00 (Paris) / 8:00 EST(New York) / 21:00 CST (Beijing)
Algorithms and AI
Session Chair: Olena Havrylchyk
Financial Inclusion and Alternate Credit Scoring: Role of Big Data and Machine Learning in Fintech, by Sumit Agarwal, Shashwat Alok, Pulak Ghosh, and Sudip Gupta
Discussant: Jean-Edouard Colliard
Algorithm Aversion in Delegated Investing by Maximilian Germann and Christoph Merkle
Discussant: Shashwat Alok
Measuring Regulatory Complexity, by Jean-Edouard Colliard and Co-Pierre Georg
Discussant: Christoph Merkle
Wednesday March 10th at 14:00 (Paris) / 8:00 (New York) / 21:00 (Beijing)
Robo-advisors
Session Chair: Olena Havrylchyk
Discussant: Mehrshad Motahari
Discussant: Stanislav Sokolinski
Discussant: Braiden Coleman
Wednesday January 27th at 14:00 (Paris) / 8:00 EST(New York) / 21:00 (Beijing)
Crypto Trading and User Utility
Session Chair: Arash Aloosh
Crypto Wash Trading - by Lin William Cong, Xi Li, Ke Tang, and Yang Yang
Discussant: Jiasun Li
A Seesaw Effect in the Cryptocurrency Market: Understanding the Lead–Lag Effect Among Cryptocurrencies - by Yuecheng Jia, Yangru Wu, Shu Yan, and Chenxi Yin
Discussant: Hyung-Eun Choi
The Public Blockchain Ecosystem: An Empirical Analysis - by Felix Irresberger, Kose John, and Fahad Saleh
Discussant: Yuecheng Jia
Wednesday December 16th at 17:00 (Paris) / 11:00 EST(New York) / 08:00 PDT (California)
CryptoCurrency: costs, demands, and local impacts
Session Chair: David Yermack
Cryptomining: Energy Use and Local Impact - by Matteo Benetton, Giovanni Compiani, and Adair Morse
Discussant: Maarten van Oordt
Why Fixed Costs Matter for Proof-of-Work Based Cryptocurrencies - by Rodney J. Garratt and Maarten van Oordt
Discussant: Matteo Benetton
Investors' Beliefs and Asset Prices: A Structural Model of Cryptocurrency Demand - by Matteo Benetton, Giovanni Compiani
Discussant: Ye Li
Wednesday November 18th at 14:00 (Paris) / 08:00 EST(New York) / 19:00 (China/Western Australia)
ICOs and Smart Contracts
Session Chair: Hanna Halaburda
(R)evolution in Entrepreneurial Finance? The Relationship between Cryptocurrency and Venture Capital Markets - by Kirill Shakhnov and Luana Zaccaria
Discussant: Sara Ain-Tommar
Product market competition with crypto tokens and smart contracts - by Evgeny Lyandres
Discussant: Luana Zaccaria
The Role of Cryptographic Tokens and ICOs in Fostering Platform Adoption - by Yannis Bakos and Hanna Halaburda
Discussant: Evgeny Lyandres
Wednesday October 28th at 14:00 (Paris) / 09:00 EST(New York) / 21:00 CST (China and Western Australia)
Marketplace Lending and Platforms
Session Chair: Marianne Verdier
Consumer Lending Efficiency: Commercial Banks versus a Fintech Lenders - by Joseph P. Hughes, Julapa Jagtiani and Choon-Geol Moon
Discussant: Danxia Xie
What Does Peer-to-Peer Lending Evidence Say About the Risk-taking Channel of Monetary Policy? - by Yiping Huang, Xiang Li, and Chu Wang
Discussant: Joseph P. Hughes
Survival Scale: Marketplace Lending and Asymmetric Network Effectss - by Lin William Cong, Qi Miao, Ke Tang, and Danxia Xie
Discussant: Yiping Huang