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 |
