Thursday, May 2
1:00 pm
Introductions
Cryptocurrency and Proof of Work
1:10 pm

The Economics of Cryptocurrency -- Bitcoin and Beyond

Jonathan Chiu, Bank of Canada
Thorsten V. Koeppl, Queen's University

Discussant:
Rod Garratt, University of California at Santa Barbara
2:00 pm
Break
2:10 pm

Economics of Proof-of-Stake Payment Systems

Leonid Kogan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Discussant:
Fahad Saleh, Wake Forest University
3:00 pm

De-crypto-ing Signals in Initial Coin Offerings: Evidence of Rational Token Retention

Tetiana Davydiuk, Johns Hopkins University
Deeksha Gupta, Johns Hopkins University
Samuel Rosen, Temple University

Discussant:
Hanna Halaburda, New York University
3:50 pm
Break
4:00 pm

Bitcoin: A Natural Oligopoly

Nick Arnosti, University of Minnesota
Matt Weinberg, Princeton University

Discussant:
Nicole Immorlica, Microsoft Research
4:50 pm
Break
5:00 pm
Panel I
Robleh Ali, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David Andolfato, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Michael J. Lee, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Harald Uhlig, University of Chicago and NBER
6:30 pm
Adjourn and Dinner
Riverfront Room
Friday, May 3
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
Distributed Ledger Technology
9:00 am

FileBounty: Secure and Efficient File Exchange in Rational Adversarial Environment

Simon Janin, ETH Zurich
Arthur Gervais, Imperial College London
Akaki Mamageishvili, ETH Zurich

Discussant:
Jacky Mallett, Reykjavík University
10:00 am

Financial Reporting and Blockchains: Audit Pricing, Misstatements, and Regulation

Sean Cao, University of Maryland, College Park
William Cong, Cornell University and NBER
Baozhong Yang, Georgia State University

Discussant:
Venky Nagar, University of Michigan
11:00 am
Panel II
Zhiguo He, University of Chicago and NBER
Anup Malani, University of Chicago and NBER
Neha Narula, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Robert Townsend, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch - Somerset Room
1:30 pm
Panel III
Cathy Barrera, Prysm Group
Alisa DiCaprio, R3
June Ou, Figure
Ivelin Zvezdov, AIR Worldwide
3:30 pm
Adjourn
Format: each paper has 50 minutes, 25 minutes presentation, 15 minutes discussion, and 10 minutes audience discussion.