Schedule

Thursday: Breakfast 8AM, Conference start 830, Lunch  with Special Featured Speaker 12, Reception 5

Friday: Breakfast 8AM, Sessions start 830, Keynote speaker 1030, Lunch 12, Keynote speaker 2, Conference end 4:15

Both days: Morning and afternoon paper presentations, with discussants for Economics/Finance Track papers only

Suggested Hotel

A block of rooms with discounted rates is available for reservations until March 20 at the Hotel Monaco near the Fed. You can book your room using this link: FRB Fintech Conference Block

Conference Keynote Speakers

Stefan Nagel (University of Chicago) 

Ramayya Krishnan (Carnegie Mellon University)

Special Featured Speaker

Patrick Harker, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Economics/Finance Track Paper Presentations (Discussants and presentation times TBA)

The Welfare Benefits of Pay-As-You-Go Financing

• Paul Gertler (University of California, Berkeley)

• Brett Green (Washington University in St. Louis)

• Renping Li (Washington University in St. Louis)

• David Sraer (University of California, Berkeley)

• Discussant: 

Sean Higgins, Kellogg School, Northwestern University

AI Coordination and Self-Fulfilling Financial Crises

• Hao Yang (Swiss Finance Institute and USI Lugano)

• Discussant:

Winston Dou, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Regulating Credit: Effects on Market Structure, Lender Technologies, and Credit Access

• Susan Cherry (Stanford University)

• Discussant:

Barry Scholnick, University of Alberta

Digital Payments and Monetary Policy Transmission

• Pauline Liang (Stanford University)

• Matheus Sampaio (Northwestern University)

• Sergey Sarkisyan (The Ohio State University)

• Discussant:

Naz Koont, Stanford University

Anatomy of a Crypto Bank Run

• Yuan Gao (University of Arizona)

• Richard Sias (University of Arizona)

• Discussant

Jonathan Rose,  Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Learning from DeFi: Would Automated Market Makers Improve Equity Trading?

• Katya Malinova (DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University)

• Andreas Park (University of Toronto)

• Discussant:

TBA

Levelling the Field: Equitable Interest Rates for Unsecured Personal Loans

• Ram Gopal (University of Warwick)

• Xiao Qiao (City University of Hong Kong)

• Moris Strub (University of Warwick)

• Zonghao Yang (Stevens Institute of Technology)

• Discussant:

TBA

Financial Innovation, Labor Markets, and Wage Inequality: Evidence from Instant Payment Systems

• Jacelly Cespedes (University of Minnesota)

• Carlos Burga (PUC-Chile) 

• Carlos Parra (PUC-Chile) 

• Bernardo Rica (Insper) 

• Discussant:

Nishant Vats, Olin School, Washington University at St. Louis

Buy Now Pay (Less) Later: Leveraging Private BNPL Data in Consumer Banking

• Christine Laudenbach (SAFE and Goethe University)<laudenbach@safe.de> 

• Elin Molin (Lund University) 

• Talina Sondershaus (Lund University)

• Kasper Roszbach (Norges Bank)

• Discussant:

Andrew Herzberg, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

The Decline of Branch Banking

• Rajesh Narayanan (Louisiana State University)

• Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)

• Philip Strahan (Boston College & NBER)

• Discussant:

Shohini Kundu, University of California at Los Angeles

Tech Track Paper Presentations

Generative AI for Modeling Customer Behavior: Exploring Effective Intervention Strategies

• Xuewen Han (Tsinghua University)

• Kunpeng Zhang (University of Maryland)

• Sean Xin Xu (Tsinghua University)

Fighting Climate Change with FinTech

• Antonio Gargano (University of Houston)

• Alberto Rossi (Gerogetown University)

Matrix profile enhanced Bayesian online change point detection for Bitcoin ETF trading

• Masoud Neshastehriz (University of Delaware)

• Paul Laux (University of Delaware)

Preliminary Lessons Learned from the Change Healthcare Nationwide Pharmacy Outage

• William Yurcik (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)

• Andreas Schick (U.S. Food & Drug Administration)

LeverEdge: On-Chain Leveraged Tokens

• Reza Rahimian (Concordia University)

• Jeremy Clark (Concordia University)

Program Committee

• Joseph Abadi (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)

• Tetyana Balyuk (Emory University)

• Jack Bao (University of Delaware)

• Sunita Chandrasekaran (University of Delaware)

• Bintong Chen (University of Delaware)

• John D'Arcy (University of Delaware)

• Michael De Lucia (US Army ARL, UD)

• Sebastian Doerr (Bank for International Settlements)

• Laura Field (University of Delaware)

• Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham (Yale)

• Charles Gouert (NVIDIA Research)

• Deeksha Gupta (John Hopkins University)

• Vinu Joseph (NVIDIA)

• Jinwook Lee (Drexel University)

• Wenli Li (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)

• Chen Liu (Intel)

• Dimitris Mouris (Nillion)

• Marina Niessner (Indiana University)

• Ashish Pujari (Google)

• Sebastian Doerr (Bank for International Settlements)

• Xiao Fang (University of Delaware)

• Alberto Rossi (Georgetown University)

• Philip Strahan (Boston College)

• James Vickery (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)

• Wujie Wen (NC State University)

• Jiaheng Xie (University of Delaware)

• Jiafeng Xie (Villanova University)

• David Yermack (New York University)

• Gloria Yang Yu (Singapore Management University)

• Xu Yuan (University of Delaware)

• Yao Zeng (University of Pennsylvania)

• Kunpeng Zhang (University of Maryland)

• Tianjian (TJ) Zhang (California State University Dominguez Hills)

• Hong-Sheng Zhou (Virginia Commonwealth University)

• Yu Zhu (University of Delaware)

Organizing Committee

Conference Chair:

• Paul Laux (University of Delaware)

Fin Track Chairs:

• Michael Gelman (University of Delaware)

• Vitaly Meursault (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)

Tech Track Chairs:

• Nektarios Tsoutsos (University of Delaware)

• Gang Wang (University of Delaware)