Public Talks

2026 AEA Recent Developments Lecture: The Economics of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains (January 2026)

2026 AEA Recent Developments Lecture. January 4, 2026.
2026 AEA Recent Developments Lectures
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COVID-19: Five Years Later (November 2025)

The University of Chicago Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression. November 13, 2025.
University of Chicago FFIE Event Announcement

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Finance Experts Panel Conference: Panel on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains (October 2024)

Clark Center Finance Experts Panel Conference. October 4, 2024.
Clark Center Finance Experts Conference 2024 Program
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High-Frequency Trading and the Design of Financial Markets (July 2023)

a16z Seminar. July 24, 2023.
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Market Design and Innovation (May 2023)

Keynote, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (joint with Atlanta and Dallas Feds) Technology-Enabled Disruption Conference. May 22, 2023.
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond TED Conference
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Viewpoint: The Case for Frequent Batch Auctions (May 2023)

NBER New Directions in Market Design Conference. May 11-12, 2023.
NBER New Directions in Market Design Conference, Spring 2023
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Discussion of ‘Would Order-by-Order Auctions be Competitive?’ at the SEC, 10th Annual Conference on Financial Market Regulation (May 2023)

SEC, 10th Annual Conference on Financial Market Regulation. May 2023.

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The Economic Limits of Cryptocurrencies and Anonymous, Decentralized Trust on the Blockchain (April 2023)

Booth All-Faculty Seminar. April 18, 2023.
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Harvard Harris Lecture: The Economics of Cryptocurrencies (November 2022)

Harris Lecture at Harvard University. November 9, 2022.
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The Economics of Cryptocurrencies (April 2022)

Oxford University Economics Department. April 6, 2022.

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Market Design for Covid-19 Vaccine Supply (August 2021)

Booth Alumni Event. Hosted by the Chicago Booth Alumni Club of Singapore, August 18, 2021.

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Virtual MD Seminar Presentation (March 2021)

Virtual MD Seminar Series. March 15, 2021.

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Quantifying the High-Frequency Trading ‘Arms Race’: A New Methodology and Estimates (June 2020)

Host: Matteo Aquilina and Peter O'Neill
The Microstructure Exchange. June 16, 2020.

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R<1 as an Economic Constraint (May 2020)

Stigler Center Conference on Covid-19. May 7, 2020.
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R<1 as an Economic Constraint (April 2020)

IGM Conference on the Covid-19 Crisis. April 9, 2020.
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FTC Keynote Talk, How to Fix the Market for Event Tickets (June 2019)

FTC "That's the Ticket" Workshop on Consumer Protection Issues in the Event Tickets Market, June 11 2019.
PowerPoint Slides with Speaking Notes
Slides as PDF
Slides as PDF with Speaking Notes

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Presentation on Bitcoin Research Atlanta Fed Financial Markets Conference (May 2019)

Atlanta Fed Financial Markets Conference. May 19, 2019.
Transcript and audio recording, Atlanta Fed
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AFA panel “Blockchain: Myth and Reality” (January 2019)

The American Finance Association. January 4, 2019.

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AEA/AFA Joint Luncheon Address, Will the Market Fix the Market? (January 2017)

AEA / AFA Joint Luncheon Talk. Chicago, January 6, 2017.
Transcript, Will the Market Fix the Market?
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