2020 Agenda

Take a look at the full agenda of 2020's Peer-to-Peer Financial Systems Workshop including invited talks, panels, paper sessions, keynotes, and welcome addresses by an incredible global network of top-tier speakers.

Registration

10:45 am

11:15 am

Opening Remarks

11:15 am

11:30 am

Paolo Tasca (UCL CBT) and Nikhil Vadgama (UCL CBT)

First Paper Session: Spillover Effects of Peer-to-Peer Lending on the Loan Losses of Commercial Banks

11:30 am

12:00 pm

Janus Zhang (Hong Kong Baptist University)

Second Paper Session: Ride the Lightning: Turning Bitcoin into Money

12:00 pm

12:30 pm

Peter Zimmerman (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)

Third Paper Session: Miner Collusion and the Bitcoin Protocol

12:30 pm

1:00 pm

Alfred Lehar (University of Calgary)

Panel: Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and the Future of Digital Money

1:00 pm

2:00 pm

Michael Kumhof (Bank of England), Kevin Werbach (University of Pennsylvania - Wharton), Spmka Davidovic (IMF), and Tom Wilson (Reuters)

Closing Remarks

2:00 pm

Nikhil Vadgama (UCL CBT)

Registration

10:45 am

11:15 am

Opening Remarks

11:15 am

11:30 am

Paolo Tasca (UCL CBT) Jiahua (Java) Xu (UCL CBT)

First Paper Session: The Value of "New" and "Old" Intermediation in Online Debt Crowdfunding

11:30 am

12:00 pm

Fabbio Braggion (Tilburg University)

Second Paper Session: Asymmetric Cross-side Network Effects on Digital Platforms: Evidence from Marketplace Lending

12:00 pm

12:30 pm

Ke Tang (Tsinghua University)

Third Paper Session: Digital Currency and Economic Crises: Helping States Respond

12:30 pm

1:00 pm

Geoffrey Goodell (UCL)

Keynote Speech: The Economics of Distributed Ledger Technology

1:00 pm

1:45 pm

Raphael Auer (Bank for International Settlements)

Closing Remarks

1:45 pm

Jiahua (Java) Xu (UCL CBT)

Registration

10:45 am

11:15 am

Opening Remarks

11:15 am

11:30 am

Paolo Tasca (UCL CBT) and Geoff Goodell (UCL CBT)

First Paper Session: (R)evolution in Entrepreneurial Finance? The Relationship between Cryptocurrency and Venture Capital Markets

11:30 am

12:00 pm

Kirill Shakhnov (University of Surrey)

Second Paper Session: Why Fixed Costs Matter for Proof-of-Work Based Cryptocurrencies

12:00 pm

12:30 pm

Maarten van Oordt (Bank of Canda)

Third Paper Session: A Contract Service Provider Model for Virtual Assets

12:30 pm

1:00 pm

Thomas Hardjono (MIT Connection Science & Engineering)

Panel: The Global Pandemics and New Opportunities for Financial Technologies

1:00 pm

2:00 pm

Kary Bheemaiah (Capgemini Invent), Paolo Sironi (IBM), Mark Esposito (Arizona State University) and moderated by Christina Frankopan (Lazard Financial Advisory)

Closing Remarks

2:00 pm

Geoffrey Goodell (UCL CBT)