Gillmore Centre Network
Inaugural Policy Forum 2022 - DeFi & Digital Currencies: The Challenges & Opportunities for Policy Makers
To drive stakeholder communication and enhance understanding of different stakeholder perspectives, the Gillmore Centre holds both in-person events and online symposiums, attracting an audience from academia, practice and regulators working in Fintech LINK,
The DeFi & Digital Currencies Conference in September 2022 assembled leading global Finance & Economics academics to present papers & discuss critical issues in this emerging Fintech development area LINK.
The DeFi & Digital Currencies Policy Forum will supplement the Conference by focussing on the perspective of Policymakers in identifying the key challenges and opportunities in regulating & developing DeFi & Digital Currencies. In line with the Gillmore Centre's mission, the Policy Forum's key objective is to guide, inform and shape future academic research amongst the Gillmore Centre researcher network through better alignment and calibration with Policymakers鈥� sphere of interest.
Gillmore Inaugural Academic Conference 2022
The conference brought together an international group of leading scholars conducting innovative theoretical and empirical research on DeFi and digital currencies. Topics include fragility in decentralised exchanges and DeFi lending; blockchain DLT consensus; competition among cryptos, fiat and CBDC; and valuing cryptos and utility tokens. The conference will continue to build on the growing Gillmore Centre research community and stimulate debate and future research on emerging financial technologies, practices, and regulation.
The Power of Social Networks in Capital Markets
As Aristotle famously noted, ''Humans are, by nature, social animals.'' Social networks' impacts on capital markets are likely to be even more important today because large-scale online social networks allow for easy communication among individuals that transcends the frictions associated with factors such as geographic distances.
On the one hand, social networks facilitate the flow of ideas and transmit valuable information. On the other hand, they can also spread rumours, amplify biases, influence individual beliefs, and trigger disagreements. These networks can thus exert substantial influence on investor and firm decisions in financial markets.
In this seminar, Prof Peng will present the latest research that uses large-scale, representative, real-world social network data to examine the effects of social networks on news diffusion, belief formation, trading, liquidity, and valuations of stocks.