The Economics of Distributed Ledger Technology
Virtual Conference, Saturday March 28th 2020
Organisers: Professor Sanjeev Goyal, Dr Melvyn Weeks and Dr David Minarsch
Morning Session
9:00-9:20 | Opening Address |
Speaker: Melvyn Weeks | |
Economic Principles of Blockchain Technology
9:20 | General Economics of Blockchain |
Speaker: Joseph Abadi (Princeton) | |
Blockchain Economics | Paper | Video | |
Chair: Jonathan Ward | |
10:00 | Economics of Consensus Mechanisms |
Speaker: Bruno Biais (HEC Paris) | |
The Blockchain Folk Theorem | Paper 1 | Paper 2 | Video | |
Chair: Fred Moisan | |
11:00 | Transaction Fees & Market Structure |
Speaker: Jacob Leshno (Chicago Booth) | |
An Economic Analysis of the Bitcoin Payment System | Paper | Video | |
Chair: David Minarsch | |
11:40 | Governance |
Speaker: Stephanie Hurder (Prysm Group) | |
Blockchain Upgrade as a Coordination Game | Paper | Video | |
Chair: David Galindo | |
Afternoon Session
Applications of Distributed Ledger Technology
13:30 |
Finance and Payment Systems |
Speaker: Leonid Kogan (MIT) | |
Economics of Proof-of-Stake Payment Systems | Paper | Video | |
Chair: Jinhua Wang | |
14:10 | Markets for Information |
Speakers: Dirk Bergemann (Yale) | |
The Economics of Social Data | Paper | Video | |
Chair: Melvyn Weeks | |
15:10 |
Tokenization |
Speaker: Professor Philipp Sandner (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management) | |
The Role of the CFO of an Industrial Company: An Analysis of the Impact of Blockchain Technology | Paper | Video | |
Chair: Daniel Honerkamp | |
15:50 | Regulation |
Speaker: Ann Sofie Cloots (University of Cambridge) | |
Distributed Ledger Technology & the Law: The Limits of coding Law and the Law of Code | Paper | Video | |
Chair: Melvyn Weeks | |
16:40 | Autonomous Agents and Machine-Based Economies: A Practitioners Perspective |
Speaker: Nik Scharmann (Bosch) | |
Speaker: John Calian (T-Labs) | |
Panel Session
17:20 |
Practitioners in the DLT Space |