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Digital Economy Expert Perspectives (DEEP)
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Hanna Halaburda, NYU Stern
Blockchains, Tokens, and Platforms: Prof. Halaburda will discuss how utility tokens can help new platforms enter the market, how governance tokens can help platforms increase social welfare, and the limitations of these technologies in improving platform strategy and competition.
Time & Location
15 Jun 2023, 9:00 am HKT
Zoom (ID: 941 5668 4783, Password: 260704)
About the Speaker
Please join the talk here: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/94156684783?pwd=cmRRcnBWU1ZVZTVBZGxzazZiRXR3QT09.
Hanna Halaburda is an Associate Professor of Technology, Operations, and Statistics at the New York University Stern School of Business.
In her research, Professor Halaburda studies how technology changes economic forces and thus affects business models and interactions in the marketplace. One strand of her work focuses on the competition between digital platforms. Since 2011, she has built a research program in digital currencies and blockchain technologies, including analyses of incentives in consensus protocols, cryptocurrency adoption, smart contracts, and token issuance. Professor Halaburda’s work has been published in Management Science, RAND, American Economic Journal, Games and Economic Behavior, and other academic journals. In 2015 she co-authored Beyond Bitcoin: The Economics of Digital Currency, the first book analyzing digital currencies from the economic perspective. The book’s 2nd edition, co-authored with Miklos Sarvary and Guillaume Haeringer, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2022.
Prior to joining NYU Stern, Professor Halaburda was an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School, and a senior economist at the Bank of Canada. She holds Master’s degrees in Economics from the Warsaw School of Economics and in Philosophy from Warsaw University, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern University.