Winner of Student Paper Competition 2021:
Title: The Adoption of Blockchain-Based Decentralized Exchanges Author: Ruizhe Jia
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Honorable Mention:
Title: While Stability Lasts: A Stochastic Model of Stablecoins Author: Ariah Klages-Mundt
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Thanks to the Judges Panel:
John Birge john.birge@chicagobooth.edu, Hobart W. Williams Distinguished Service Professor or Operations Management, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Chanaka Edirisinghe edirin@rpi.edu, Acting Dean, Kay and Jackson Tai '72 Chaired Professor in Quantitative Finance, Lally School of Management, Rensselaer
Mark S Squillante mss@us.ibm.com, Distinguished Research Staff Member and the Manager of Foundations of Probability, Dynamics and Control within Mathematical Sciences, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Bruno Biais biaisb@hec.fr Professor HEC Paris