Knut Wicksell Conference on Crypto and Fintech

Knut Wicksell Conference on Crypto and Fintech

August 30-31, 2024

Skissernas Museum, Finngatan 2, Lund, Sweden Direction to Skissernas Museum

Programme

Day 1 - Friday, August 30

09.00-09.20 Registration

Session 1: Chair TBA
09.20-09.50 CBDC and banks: Disintermediating fast and slow Timothy Jackson (University of Liverpool) Discussant: TBA ()
09.50-10.20 DeFi-ying the Fed? Monetary Policy Transmission to Stablecoin Rates Benoit Nguyen (European Central Bank and Banque de France)Discussant: TBA ()
10.20-10.50 Coffee Break

Session 2: Chair TBA
10.50-11.20 Blockchain Currency Markets Ganesh Viswanath-Natraj (Warwick Business School and Gillmore Centre for Financial Technology) Discussant: TBA ()
11.20-11.50 Regulation, information asymmetries and the funding of new ventures Giulio Cornelli (Bank for International Settlements and the University of Zurich) Discussant: TBA ()

Panel Discussion
11.50-12.40 Regulating crypto firms Alex Bechtel (Podcast: ”Bitcoin, Fiat and Rock’n’Roll”) Campbell R. Harvey (Professor of Finance at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University) Emelie Moritz (CEO Safello) Elisabeth Noble (European Banking Authority)
Moderator: Sarah Palurovic (Blockchain Center, Frankfurt School of Finance)
12.40-14.00 Lunch

Session 3: Chair TBA
14.00-14.30 Payoff over Panorama: Mental Accounting and Asset Class Selection Judith Bohnenkamp (University of Miami) Discussant: TBA ()
14.30-15.00 The Rise of E-Wallets and Buy-Now-Pay-Later: Payment Competition, Credit Expansion, and Consumer Behavior Yang Ji (Sun Yat-Sen University) Discussant: TBA ()
15.00-15.30 Who Invests in Crypto? Wealth, Financial Constraints, and Risk Attitudes Scott R. Baker (Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management and NBER) Discussant: TBA ()
15.30-16.00 Fika (Coffee Break)

Session 4: Chair TBA
16.00-16.30 A better market design? Applying “Automated Market Makers” to traditional financial markets Peter O’Neill (University of New South Wales) Discussant: TBA ()
16.30-17.00 Crypto Carry Karamfil Todorov (Bank for International Settlements) Discussant: TBA ()

Keynote
17.00-18.00 Campbell R. Harvey (Professor of Finance at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University)
Dinner 19.00-21.30 

Day 2 - Saturday, August 31

Session 5: Chair TBA
09.00-09.30 Did Fintech Loans Default More During the COVID-19 Pandemic? Were Fintech Firms ”Cream-Skimming” the Best Borrowers? Julapa Jagtiani (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia) Discussant: TBA ()
09.30-10.00 Does FinTech Improve Financial Inclusion? Evidence from Crowdfunded Microfinance Institutions Tse-chun Lin (University of Hong Kong) Discussant: TBA ()
10.00-10.30 Fika

Session 6: Chair TBA
10.30-11.00 Battle of the Bots: Flash loans, Miner Extractable Value and Efficient Settlement Alfred Lehar (Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary)Discussant: TBA ()
11.00-11.30 The DeFi Dilemma Stefan Voigt (University of Copenhagen) Discussant: TBA ()
11.30-12.30 Lunch

Recommended Hotels in Lund

• Grand Hotel, Bantorget 1, Lund http://www.grandilund.se
• Hotel Lundia, Knut Den Stores Torg 2, Lund https://www.lundia.se/
• Forenom Aparthotel Lund, Laboratoriegatan 10, Lund https://www.forenom.com/aparthotels/lund 

Traveling from Copenhagen Airport to Lund

You take the train from the airport to "Lund C," the central station in Lund. The journey takes around 40 minutes. You can buy a ticket at the ticket machine at the airport. When you exit the luggage claim area, you just go straight. There are two types of machines: the red ones (right) are only for Denmark. The grey ones (left) are for traveling to Sweden. There you purchase a ticket to "Lund C." The platform is just below you – you either take the exit to the right or left, either works well.

To search for train departures online, you can use:

Home | Öresundståg (oresundstag.se)

Buy tickets for trains in Sweden on sj.se

Kollektivtrafik i Skåne - Skånetrafiken (skanetrafiken.se) (only available in Swedish and Danish)

"Copenhagen Airport" or "CPH Airport Kastrup" to "Lund C"