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Sunset Reference Center, 201 George Hall
Shidler College of Business, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Thursday, June 27th, 2024
Jointly hosted by Shidler College of Business and Circle Internet Financial
8:00 am
Registration and breakfast
9:00-9:10 am
Opening remarks: Vance Roley, Shidler College of Business, University of Hawaii at Manoa
9:10-10:20 am
Session 1: Technology and Financial Intermediation
Financial System Architecture and Technological Vulnerability
Selman Erol, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
Michael Lee, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
The Effect of Instant Payments on Banks: Liquidity Transformation and Risk-Taking
Rodrigo Barbone Gonzalez, Central Bank of Brazil
Yiming Ma, Columbia Business School, Columbia University
Yao Zeng, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
10:20-10:40 am
Break
10:40-11:50 am
Session 2: Stablecoins and Financial Stability
Adrien d’Avernas, Stockholm School of Economics
Vincent Maurin, HEC Paris
Quentin Vandeweyer, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
Runs and Flights to Safety: Are Stablecoins the New Money Market Funds?
Kenechukwu Anadu, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Pablo Azar, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Marco Cipriani, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Thomas M. Eisenbach, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Catherine Huang, Harvard Business School
Mattia Landoni, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Gabriele La Spada, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Marco Macchiavelli, Isenberg School of Management, UMass Amherst
Antoine Malfroy-Camine, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
J. Christina Wang, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
11:50 am-1:20 pm
Luncheon
1:20-2:20 pm
Keynote: Christine Parlour, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
2:20-2:40 pm
Break
2:40-4:25 pm
Session 3: Blockchain and Smart Contracts
What Drives Crypto Asset Prices?
Austin Adams, Uniswap Labs
Markus Ibert, Copenhagen Business School
Gordon Liao, Circle Internet Financial
Competitive Dynamics in Staking Markets
Jiageng Liu, MIT Sloan School of Management
Igor Makarov, London School of Economics and Political Science
Antoinette Schoar, MIT Sloan School of Management
Learning from DeFi: Would Automated Market Makers Improve Equity Trading?
Katya Malinova, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University
Andreas Park, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
7:30-9:00 pm
Dinner
Halekulani Hotel – Hau Terrace
2199 Kālia Rd, Honolulu