Programme 2016
Time zone: London, UK (GMT)
Event partners: Bank of England, Bank of Canada, Deutsche Bundesbank, SAFE House of Finance, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Thursday, September 8th:
Program Chair: Paolo Tasca (Executive Director, UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies)
Room 1 – Digital Currencies and Blockchain Technology
9.15 – 10.05
Keynote Talk
Speaker: Victoria Cleland (Bank of England)
10.05 – 10.40
Session I
Chairman: Tomaso Aste (University College London)
Invited Talk: Dominick Paniscotti (Associate VP, Enterprise Architecture, NASDAQ)
11.00 – 11.35
Invited Talk
Speaker: Nicolas Curtois (University College London)
11.35 – 12.05
On the Value of Virtual Currencies
Speakers: Wilko Bolt (De Nederlandsche Bank, DNB) and Maarten van Oordt (Bank of Canada)
Discussant: Katya Malinova
12.05 – 12.35
The Fiduciaries of Public Blockchains
Speaker: Angela Walch
Discussant: Petros Kavassalis
12.35 – 13.05
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Speakers:
Petros Kavassalis, Harald Stieber, Wolfgang Breymann, Keith Saxton,
Francis Gross, Willi Brammertz, Stefano Bertolo and Antonis Dragiotis
Discussant: Tomaso Aste (University College London)
14:35 – 15:10
Session II
Chairman: Dirk Schrade (Deutsche Bundesbank)
Invited Talk: Andrea Pinna (European Central Bank)
15:10 – 15:40
The Evolution of the Bitcoin Economy:
Extracting and Analyzing the Network of Payment Relationships
Speakers:
Paolo Tasca (University College London)
Shaowen Liu (Deutsche Bundesbank)
Adam Hayes (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Discussant: Guido Caldarelli (IMT Lucca)
15:40 – 16:10
The Macroeconomics of Central-Bank-Issued Digital Currencies
Speakers:
John Barrdear (Bank of England)
Michael Kumhof (Bank of England)
Discussant: Katya Malinova (University of Toronto)
16:10 – 16:45
Invited Talk
Jeremy Clarck (Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University)
17:05 – 18:05
Round Table
Business and Regulation of P2P Financial Markets
Panelists:
Dirk Schrade (Deutsche Bundesbank)
Robleh Ali (Bank of England)
Ben Fung (Bank of Canada)
David Andolfatto (FED, St. Louis)
TBC (Bank of Italy)
Moderator: Juile Maupin (Max Planck Institute for International Law & Comparative Public Law and Centre for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo)
Thursday, September 8th:
Room 2 – Crowdfunding and P2P Lending
10:05 – 10:40
Session I
Chairman Calebe de Roure (Frankfurt School of Finance)
Invited Talk: Karen Kerrigan (Chief Legal Officer, Seedrs)
11:00 – 11:35
Fed Liftoff and Subprime Loan Interest Rates: Evidence from the Peer-to-Peer Lending Market
Speakers:
Christoph Bertsch
Isaiah Hull
Xin Zhang
Discussant: Ben Craig (FED, Cleveland)
11:35 – 12:05
Contract Pricing and Market Efficiency: Can Peer-to-Peer Internet Credit Markets Improve Allocative Efficiency?
Speaker: Talal Rahim
Discussant: Hans Peter Grüner
12:10 – 12:45
Cutting out the Middleman: Crowdinvesting, Efficiency, and Inequality
Speakers:
Hans Peter Grüner
Christoph Siemroth
Discussant: Christoph Bertsch
12:35 – 13:05
P2P Lending and Screening Incentives
Speakers:
Dairo Estrada
Paula Zamora
Discussant: Talai Rahim
Friday, September 9th:
Room 1 – Digital Currencies and Blockchain Technology
9:00 – 9:50
Keynote Talk
Alexander Lipton (MIT)
9:50 – 10:25
SESSION I
Invited Talk: Wei-Tek Tsai (Behang University)
10:25 – 10:55
Market Design for Trading with Blockchain Technology
Speakers:
Katya Malinova
Andreas Park
Discussant: Michael Kumhof (Bank of England)
11:15 – 11:50
Invited Talk
Claudio J. Tessone (University of Zurich)
11:50 – 12:20
The Bitcoin Peers Network
Speakers:
Giuseppe Pappalardo (IMT Lucca), Guido Caldarelli (IMT Lucca) and
Tomaso Aste (University College London)
Discussant: Petros Kavassalis
12:20 – 12:50
Hayek Money: The Cryptocurrency Price Stability Solution
Speaker: Ferdinando M. Ametrano (Bicocca University and Intesa Sanpaolo Bank)
Discussant: Angela Walch
14:20 – 14:55
SESSION II
Chairman Dirk Schrade (Deutsche Bundesbank)
Invited Talk Tullio Menga (ATS-Advanced Technology Solutions)
14:55 – 15:25
DTD powered by ACTUS – an innovative RegTech-automated legal text approach to financial reporting
Speakers:
Petros Kavassalis, Harald Stieber, Wolfgang Breymann, Keith Saxton, Francis Gross, Willi Brammertz, Stefano Bertolo and Antonis Dragiotis
Discussant: Tomaso Aste (University College London)
15:25 – 15:55
Synzeris – Synthetic zero rate instrument as new stability enhancing instruments for (digital) monetary regime changes
Speaker: Floris Kleemans (Founder, FOCAFET Foundation)
Discussant: Ferdinando M. Ametrano (Bicocca University and Intesa Sanpaolo Bank)
16:25 – 16:55
Case Study of Lykke Exchange: First Experiences and Outlook
Speakers:
Anton Golub, Richard B. Olsen, Stefano Battiston,
Guido Caldarelli and Sergey Ivliev
Discussant: Floris Kleemans (Founder, FOCAFET Foundation)
17:15 – 18:15
Round Table: Business and Technology of P2P Financial Markets
Panelists:
Michael Cooper (CTO, BT Radianz services, Global Banking & Financial Markets, BT)
Dominick Paniscotti (Associate VP, Enterprise Architecture, NASDAQ)
David B. Kinitsky (Director of Innovation at Fidelity Investments)
Rhydian Lewis (CEO, RateSatter.com)
Moderator: Andrei Kirilenko (Imperial College)
Friday, September 9th:
Room 2 – Crowdfunding and P2P Lending
9:50 – 10:25
SESSION I
Chairman: Diana Biggs (University College London)
Invited Talk: Rhydian Lewis (CEO, RateSatter.com)
10:25 – 10:55
Will crowdfunding contribute to financial development in developing countries?
Speakers:
Adalbert Winkler
Ulf Moslener
Discussant: Tania L. L. Urresta
11:15 – 11:50
Invited Talk
Bruce Davis (Managing Director, Abundance Investment)
11:50 – 12:20
More inclusive, more stable? The financial inclusion – stability nexus in the global financial crisis
Speakers:
Tania L. L. Urresta
Adalbert Winkler
Discussant: Dairo Estrada
12:20 – 12:50
How Does P2P Lending Fit into the Consumer Credit Market
Speakers:
Calebe de Roure (Frankfurt School of Finance)
Loriana Pelizzon (Goethe University)
Paolo Tasca (University College London)
Discussant: Adalbert Winkler
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