On August 24th and 25th, Theresa Kück will attend the doctoral workshop series “New Frontiers in Finance” of the European Finance Association (EFA). The topic of this year is “FinTech – Blockchains & Cryptocurrency 2021.” The aim of the workshop is to study the new FinTech area of digital currency and blockchain, to examine research into the architecture of distributed ledgers, decentralized consensus protocols, and smart contracts, as well as the governance issues connected to them.
Invited speakers are Prof. Fahed Saleh from Wake Forest University and Prof. Amin Shams from Ohio State University. Prof. David Yermack from NYU Stern School of Business is the chair of the workshop.