The 3rd Annual CBER Conference

The 3rd Annual CBER Conference, organized by the Crypto and Blockchain Economic Research (CBER) Forum,  was hosted by the Center for Digital Finance and Technologies and the Briger Family Digital Finance Lab at the Columbia Business School on May 5th and May 6th, 2023.

Video recordings

Video recordings of all talks can be viewed here.

Program

A summary of the program can be viewed below. The full program book can be found here.

Friday, May 5th

Ciamac Moallemi, Director of Briger Family Digital Finance Lab, Columbia Business School

 

Session Chair: Katya Malinova, McMaster University

Collusion-Proof Oracles for Decentralized Autonomous Organizations

  • Alexander Braun, University of St. Gallen
  • Niklas Haeusle, University of St. Gallen

Discussant: Andrea Canidio, IMT School for Advanced Studies and CoW Protocol

The Economics of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations

  • Valerie Laturnus, Goethe University

Discussant: Deeksha Gupta, Johns Hopkins University

Moderator: Pamela Moulton, Cornell University

Speaker: Eswar Prasad Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy Cornell University

Moderator: Ciamac Moallemi, Columbia University

Panelists:

  • Nathan Allman, Ondo Finance
  • Matt Cushman, Ajna Finance
  • Gordon Liao, Circle
  • Aseem Sood, Uniswap

 

Moderators: Agostino Capponi, Columbia University and Bruce Choy, Global Risk Institute

Panelists:

  • Mohamad AL-Bustami, Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Canada
  • Francesca Carapella, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
  • Michael J. Lee, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  • Valerie Szczepanik, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Session Chair: Gordon Liao, Circle

Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering, and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges

  • Ari Juels, Cornell University
  • Philip Daian, Cornell University
  • Steven Goldfeder, Cornell University
  • Tyler Kell, Cornell University
  • Yunqi Li, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Xueyuan Zhao, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Iddo Bentov, Cornell University
  • Lorenz Breidenbach, ETH Zurich

Saturday, May 6th

Agostino Capponi, Director of the Center for Digital Finance and Technologies, Columbia Engineering

Garud Iyengar, Senior Vice Dean for Research and Academic Programs, Columbia Engineering

Session Chair: Garud Iyengar, Columbia University

Money, Credit and Anonymity

  • Remo Taudien, Foundation of the Swiss National Bank
  • Fabienne Schneider, Foundation of the Swiss National Bank

Discussant: Katrin Tinn, McGill University

Lightning Network Economics: Topology

  • Paolo Guasoni, Dublin City University
  • Gur Huberman, Columbia University
  • Clara Shikhelman, Chaincode

Discussant: Brett Falk, University of Pennsylvania

Session Chair: Lawrence Glosten, Columbia University

Interest Rate Parity in Decentralized Finance

  • Amit Chaudhary, Polygon
  • Roman Kozhan, University of Warwick
  • Ganesh Viswanath Natraj, University of Warwick

Discussant: Quentin Vandeweyer, University of Chicago

Battle of the Bots: Flash loans, Miner Extractable Value and Efficient Settlement

  • Alfred Lehar, University of Calgary
  • Christine Parlour, University of California Berkeley

Discussant: Joel Hasbrouck, NYU Stern

Moderator: Kose John, NYU Stern

Tobias Adrian, Director of Monetary and Capital Markets International Monetary Fund

Agostino Capponi, Columbia University and Ciamac Moallemi, Columbia University