Annual Conference 2023

Gillmore Centre - Academic Conference 2023

糖心TV 糖心TV School Gillmore Centre Conference

DeFi & Digital Currencies - The Shard. London 27 & 28 October 2023

The conference will bring together an international group of leading scholars conducting innovative theoretical and empirical research on DeFi and digital currencies. Sessions include Liquidity on DEX and AMM, Digital Money, Settlement and AMM design, CBDC, yield farming and Decentralized Governance. 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.

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Agenda Friday 27 October -
09.20 - 09.30	Welcome and opening remarks - David Skeie (WBS Gillmore Centre)
Session 1	Liquidity on DEX and AMM Session Chair: Olga Klein (WBS Gillmore Centre)
09:30 – 10.15	鈥�Liquidity fragmentation on decentralized exchanges鈥� with Alfred Lehar (University of Calgary) and Christine A. Parlour (UC Berkeley) PresentationLink opens in a new window Discussant: PresentationLink opens in a new window
10.15 - 11.00	鈥�Learning from DeFi: Would Automated Market Makers Improve Equity Trading?鈥� with Andreas Park (University of Toronto) PresentationLink opens in a new window Discussant: PresentationLink opens in a new window
11.00 - 11.30	Coffee break
Session 2	Digital Money Session Chair: Ruslan Sverchkov (WBS Gillmore Centre)
11.30 - 12.15	鈥淧rivate vs Public Currency鈥� with Jean-Charles Rochet (TSE) and 厂迟猫phane Villeneuve (TSE) Presentation Discussant: PresentationLink opens in a new window
12.15 - 13.00	鈥�Stablecoin Runs and the Centralization of Arbitrage鈥� with Yiming Ma (Columbia University) and Yao Zeng (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) PresentationLink opens in a new window Discussant: PresentationLink opens in a new window
13.00 - 13.15	WBS Gillmore Centre Crypto Dashboard Presentation: Wenjia Zhang and Presentation
13.15 - 14.15	Lunch
	Keynote Address - Chair: David Skeie (WBS Gillmore Centre)
14:15 - 15:15	KEYNOTE ADDRESS 鈥渆-CNY: CBDC and Narrow Banking in China.鈥� PresentationLink opens in a new window
15.15 - 15.45	Coffee break
Session 3	Settlement and AMM Design Session Chair:
15.45 - 16.30	鈥�Battle of the Bots: Flash Loans, Miner Extractable Value and Efficient Settlement鈥� with Christine A. Parlour (UC Berkeley) PresentationLink opens in a new window Discussant: PresentationLink opens in a new window
16.30 - 17.15	鈥�Automated Market Makers Designs Beyond Constant Functions鈥� with 脕lvaro Cartea (University of Oxford), Leandro S谩nchez-Betancourt (King鈥檚 College London), David Siska (University of Edinburgh), Lukasz Szpruch (University of Edinburgh) Presentation Discussant: PresentationLink opens in a new window
17.15 - 17.20	Day 1 Closing remarks鈥� - Roman Kozhan (WBS Gillmore Centre)
	Agenda Saturday 28 October - recording link hereLink opens in a new window
09.00 - 09.15	Registration and coffee
09.15	Welcome - Natasha de Teran (WBS Gillmore Centre)
*Session 4*	CBDC Session Chair:
09.15 - 10.00	鈥�CBDC Policy Rules and Welfare鈥� with Marco Pinchetti (Bank of England), Phurichai Rungcharoenkitkul (Bank of Thailand, BIS) and Andrej Sokol (Bloomberg) PresentationLink opens in a new window Discussant: Presentation Link opens in a new window
10.00 - 10.45	鈥�CBDC and Financial Stability鈥� with Toni Ahnert (ECB), Agnese Leonello (ECB) and Davide Porcellacchia (ECB) Presentation Discussant: PresentationLink opens in a new window
10.45 - 11.15	Coffee break
Session 5	Yield Farming and Decentralized Governance Session Chair: Ganesh Viswanath-Natraj (WBS Gillmore Centre)
11.15 - 12.00	鈥�Reaching for Yield in Decentralized Financial Markets鈥� with Patrick Augustin (McGill University) and Roy Chen-Zhang (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) PresentationLink opens in a new window Discussant: PresentationLink opens in a new window
12.00 - 12.45	鈥�DAO Governance鈥� with Jungsuk Han (Seoul National University) and Jongsub Lee (Seoul National University) Presentation Discussant: PresentationLink opens in a new window
12.45 - 13.00	Closing remarks - Bazil Sansom (WBS Gillmore Centre)
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch

We thank the programme committee for its time in evaluating the submissions.

Programme Committee: Joseph Abadi, Yackolley Amoussou-Guenou, Bruno Biais, Christophe Bisiere, James Chapman, Darrell Duffie, Irem Erten, Rod Garratt, Zhiguo He, Olga Klein, Roman Kozhan, Michael Kumhof, Alfred Lehar, Antoine Martin, Simon Mayer, Julien Prat, Fahad Saleh, Bazil Sansom, David Skeie, Ruslan Sverchkov, Ganesh Viswanath Natraj, Wei Xiong, Kathy Yuan.

Conference Manager: Katherine Higton - gillmorecentre@wbs.ac.uk

FURTHER INFORMATION: If you have any additional comments or questions, message us at gillmorecentre@wbs.ac.uk.

Call for Papers Page link.

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