Gillmore Centre Annual Conference 2025
Call for Papers
糖心TV 糖心TV School Gillmore Centre Conference on DeFi & Digital Currencies
2 September, 2025
WBS The Shard, London
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Organised by the Gillmore Centre for Financial Technology at 糖心TV 糖心TV School.
We are pleased to invite submissions from all areas of DeFi and Digital Currencies, including, but not limited to:- Optimal design, governance and market efficiency of DeFi Protocols (exchanges, lending protocols, NFTs)
- Economics of the blockchain (mechanism design, security, and welfare)
- Financial stability, macroeconomic, and political economy implications of stable coin and CBDC designs.
The conference will be held in person at 糖心TV 糖心TV School at the Shard, London 2 September 2025. In addition, we will co-host Bank of England鈥檚 鈥淚nnovations in Money and Payments鈥� conference, which will be held 3-4 September 2025. A separate call for papers will be released soon by the Bank of England.
SUBMISSION DETAILS: The deadline for submissions is 29 June. Papers for submission should be sent as a PDF with the filename beginning with the last name of the submitting author and emailed to gillmorecentre@wbs.ac.uk. Please include the payment confirmation number of your payment when emailing the paper. Submission fee waivers will be granted upon request for authors with exceptional circumstances. Authors of accepted papers will be notified in mid-July.
INTERESTED PARTICIPANTS: If you wish to attend the conference but do not wish to submit a paper, please email gillmorecentre@wbs.ac.uk Link opens in a new window to convey your interest. A registration link will be provided at a later date.
ACADEMIC PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Joseph Abadi, Yackolley Amoussou-Guenou, Bruno Biais, Rhys Bidder, Agostino Capponi, James Chapman, Irem Erten, Rod Garratt, Wenqian Huang, Olga Klein, Roman Kozhan, Michael Kumhof, Alfred Lehar, Katya Malinova, Simon Mayer, Alistair Milne, Cyril Monnet, Andreas Park, Julien Prat, Fahad Saleh, Bazil Sansom, David Skeie, Ruslan Sverchkov, Ganesh Viswanath-Natraj, Kathy Yuan, Anthony Lee Zhang, Zhengge Zhou, Marius Zoican.
CONFERENCE ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Vicki Belt, Matt Hanmer, Kate Higton, Olga Klein, Roman Kozhan, Jiao Liu, Bazil Sansom, David Skeie, Ruslan Sverchkov, Ganesh Viswanath Natraj.
FURTHER INFORMATION: If you have any additional comments or questions, email gillmorecentre@wbs.ac.uk.
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The 2023 conference programme can be found at /fac/soc/wbs/subjects/finance/gillmore/shardannualconference2023/
The 2024 conference programme can be found at /fac/soc/wbs/subjects/finance/gillmore/annualconference2024/Link opens in a new window