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Past Seminars

Winter 2025

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Feb 18th

Jacob Leshno (Chicago Booth)

On the Viability of Open-Source Financial Rails: Economic Security of Permissionless Consensus

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Feb 4th

Nir Chemaya (UCSB)

CLVR Ordering of Transactions on AMMs

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Jan 28th

Anthony Lee Zhang(Chicago Booth)

Competition in the Cryptocurrency Exchange Market

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Jan 21st

Carol Alexander (University of Sussex Business School and Exponential Science Foundation)

Leveraged Restaking of Leveraged Staking: What are the Risks

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Jan 14th

Tim Dong (University of Tennessee)

Undercollateralized lending and trustless (oracle-free) options market

Fall 2024

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Dec 3rd

Ariel Zetlin-Jones (Carnegie Mellon University)

Automated Exchange Economies

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Nov 26th

Qiang Wang (Pennsylvania State University)

Does DeFi Democratize Access to Financial Services?

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Nov 19th

Artem Streltsov (Cornell University)

Perpetual Price Discovery and Cryptocurrency

Market Quality

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Nov 12th

Sabrina Aufiero (UCL)

DApps Ecosystems: Mapping the Network Structure of Smart Contract Interactions

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Nov 5th

Magnus Hansson (Stockholm University)

Price Discovery in Constant Product Markets

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Oct 29th

Clara Shikhelman (ChainCode Labs)

Lightning Network Economics: Channels

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Oct 15th

Andrea Canidio (Cow Protocol)

Arbitrageurs' profits, LVR, and sandwich attacks: batch trading as an AMM design response

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Oct 8th

Tarun Chitra (Gauntlet)

Towards a Theory of Maximal Extractable Value II: Uncertainty

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Oct 1st

Lorenzo Schoenleber (University of Turin)

Implied Impermanent Loss: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Decentralized Liquidity Pools

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Sep 24th

Kushal Babel (Cornell Tech)

PROF: Protected Order Flow in a Profit-Seeking World

Spring 2024

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Aug 28th

Moty Moravvej (University of Calgary)

Gas Tokens: Market for Future Settlement

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Jun 28th

Matheus Venturyne (Harvard University)

Credible Decentralized Exchange Design via Verifiable Sequencing Rules

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Jun 14th

Gordon Liao (Circle)

On-chain Foreign Exchange and Cross-border payments

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May 17th

Yesha Yadav (Vanderbilt University)

The Centralization Paradox in Cryptocurrency Markets

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May 10th

Catherine Tucker (MIT Sloan)

Scaling Smart Contracts via Layer-2 Technologies: Some Empirical Evidence

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May 3rd

David Yermack (NYU Stern School of Business)

How Do Private Digital Currencies Affect Government Policy?

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Apr 19th

Ulf Lewrick (Bank for International Settlements)

International Bitcoin Flows

Winter 2024

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Mar 1st

Jason Milionis (Columbia University)

The Effect of Trading Fees on Arbitrage Profits in Automated Market Makers

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Feb 23rd

Fahad Saleh (Wake Forest University)

An Economic Model of a Decentralized Exchange with Concentrated Liquidity

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Feb 16th

Brett Falk (University of Pennsylvania)

Balancing Power in Decentralized Governance:

Quadratic Voting under Imperfect Information

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Jan 26th

Marius Zoican (University of Toronto)

Liquidity Fragmentation on Decentralized Exchanges

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Jan 19th

Linda M. Schilling (Washington University of St Louis)

Optimal Data Security with Redundancies

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Jan 12th

Christine Parlour (University of California, Berkeley)

Miner Collusion and the BitCoin Protocol

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Jan 5th

Aviv Yaish (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Suboptimality in DeFi

Fall 2023

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Dec 8th

Adam Baybutt (University of California, Los Angeles)

Empirical Crypto Asset Pricing with High-Dimensional Factor Models

Dec 1st

Evgeny Lyandres (Tel Aviv University)

Does Market Efficiency Impact Capital Allocation Efficiency?

The Case of Decentralized Exchanges

Oct 20th

Jill Grennan (University of California, Berkeley)

Decentralized Governance and Digital Asset Prices

Oct 13th

Olga Klein (Warwick Business School)

Blockchain Scaling and Liquidity Concentration on Decentralized Exchanges

Oct 6th

Jinfei Sheng (University of California, Irvine)

Technology and Cryptocurrency Valuation

Sep 29th

Michele Fabi (Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST), Paris)

Blockchain Design with Trassmission Delays

Spring 2023

July 7th

Maarten Van Oordt (University of Amsterdam)

The Crypto Multiplier

Jun 23rd

Rafael Belchior (INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, and Blockdaemon)

Hephaestus: Modelling, Analysis, and Performance Evaluation of Cross-Chain Transactions

Jun 9th

Lin William Cong (Cornell University)

The Dark Side of Web3 and DeFi and An Investigation into Financial Inclusion and Democratization in the Ethereum Ecosystem

Jun 2nd

Shisong Hsiao (Business School of Hunan University)

Monetary Policy Uncertainty and Cryptocurrency Volatility

May 26th

Xiaotong Sun (University of Glasgow)

Voter Coalitions and democracy in Decentralized Finance: Evidence from MakerDAO

May 19th

Alfred Lehar (University of Calgary)

Systemic Fragility in Decentralized Markets

May 12th

Chuck Fang (University of Pennsylvania)

Liquidity Misallocation on Decentralized Exchanges

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April 28th

Ali Nejadmalayeri (University of Wyoming)

Stablecoins – Past, Present, and Future

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April 21st

Mariia Petryk (George Mason University)

The Impact of Open-Source Community on Cryptocurrency Market Price: An Empirical Investigation

April 14th

Tyler Menzer (University of Iowa)

Who Sells Cryptocurrency

Winter 2023

Mar 17th

Moty Moravvej (University of Calgary)

Private Settlement in Blockchain Systems

Mar 10th

Kristof Lommers

Market Making in NFTs

Mar 3rd

Francisco Marmolejo Cossío (Harvard University)

Differential Liquidity Provision in Uniswap v3 and Implications for Contract Design

Feb 24th

Andreas Park (University of Toronto)

Learning from DeFi: Would Automated Market Makers Improve Equity Trading?

Feb 17th

Koray Caliskan (Parsons School of Design)

The Elephant in the Dark: A New Framework for Cryptocurrency Taxation and Exchange Platform Regulation in the US

Jan 27th

Steffen Schuldenzucker (Superluminal Labs)

Gyroscope P-AMM:
Designing an Autonomous Primary Market for Stabilizing Non-custodial Stablecoins

Jan 20th

Jeremie Banet (University of California, Irvine)

Central Bank Digital Currency: Financial Inclusion vs. Disintermediation

Fall 2022

Dec 2rd

Anthony Zhang (The University of Chicago Booth)

Automated Market Making and Loss-Versus-Rebalancing

Nov 18th

Xiaofeng Liu (University of California, San Diego)

Token Incentives and Platform Competition: A Tale of Two Swaps

Nov 4th

Lennart Ante (Blockchain Research Lab)

Liquidity Shocks, Token Returns and Market Capitalization in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Markets

Oct 28th

Alfred Lehar (University of Calgary)

Decentralized Exchanges

Oct 21st

Harald Uhlig (University of Chicago)

A Luna-tic Stablecoin Crash

Oct 14th

Sarah Sylvester (George Mason University)

Analyzing Arbitrage Behavior in Automated Market Makers

Sep 30th

Nir Chemaya, Dingyue Liu (UCSB)

Estimating Investor Preferences for Blockchain Security

Spring 2022

May 27th

Hao Chung (Carnegie Mellon University)

Foundations of Transaction Fee Mechanism Design

May 13th

Mathieu Amsler (University of St. Gallen)

Liquidity Providers in Constant Product Markets

April 29th

Andrea Barbon (University of St. Gallen)

On The Quality Of Cryptocurrency Markets:

Centralized Versus Decentralized Exchanges

April 22nd

Giulio Caldarelli (University of Verona)

Wrapping Trust for Interoperability:

A Preliminary Study of Wrapped Tokens

Department of Economics • College of Letters & Science • UC Santa Barbara

2022 © Elia Ching.

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