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 and Coffee

Session 1 
Chair: Anders Vilhelmsson
09.20-09.50 CBDC and banks: Disintermediating fast and slow 
Timothy Jackson (University of Liverpool) 
Discussant: Ganesh Viswanath-Natraj (Warwick Business School and Gillmore Centre for Financial Technology)
09.50-10.20 DeFi-ying the Fed? Monetary Policy Transmission to Stablecoin Rates 
Benoit Nguyen (European Central Bank and Banque de France) 
Discussant: Xin Zhang (The Riksbank)

10.20-10.50 Coffee Break

Session 2 
Chair: Talina Sondershaus 
10.50-11.20 Blockchain Currency Markets 
Ganesh Viswanath-Natraj (Warwick Business School and Gillmore Centre for Financial Technology) 
Discussant: Lorenzo Schönleber (Collegio Carlo Alberto and University of Turin)
11.20-11.50 Regulation, information asymmetries and the funding of new ventures 
Matteo Aquilina (Bank for International Settlements) 
Discussant: Cathy Lemieux (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, retired)

Panel Discussion
11.55-12.40 Regulating crypto firms
Alex Bechtel (Head of Digital Product Strategy, DWS) 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 (Policy Officer for Digital Banking & Financial Services at Bitkom)

12.40-14.30 Lunch and Guided Tour

Session 3 
Chair: Hossein Asgharian
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: Tse-chun Lin (University of Hong Kong)
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: Claudio Daminato (Lund University)

15.30-16.00 Fika (Coffee Break)

Session 4 
Chair: Andreas Johansson
16.00-16.30 Battle of the Bots: Flash loans, Miner Extractable Value and Efficient Settlement 
Alfred Lehar (Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary) 
 

Keynote
16.30-17.30 Web3 Awakening
Campbell R. Harvey (Professor of Finance at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University)

19.00-21.30 Dinner

Day 2 - Saturday, August 31

Session 5 
Chair: Elin Molin
09.00-09.30 Did Fintech Loans Default More During the COVID-19 Pandemic? Were Fintech Firms ”Cream-Skimming” the Best Borrowers? 
Cathy Lemieux (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, retired) 
Discussant: Matteo Aquilina (Bank for International Settlements)
09.30-10.00 Does FinTech Improve Financial Inclusion? Evidence from Crowdfunded Microfinance Institutions 
Tse-chun Lin (University of Hong Kong) 
Discussant: Yang Ji (Sun Yat-Sen University)

10.00-10.30 Fika

Session 6 
Chair: Jens Forssbaeck
10.30-11.00 Crypto Carry 
Karamfil Todorov (Bank for International Settlements)  
Discussant: Luyao Zhang (Duke Kunshan University)
 

11.00-12.00 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"