FE Seminar: Hanna Halaburda

Monday, October 28, 2019
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Title: Hopes and limits of blockchain disintermediation

Abstract: Over the past few years, there has been a lot of excitement about blockchain and its promise to decentralize and disintermediate. I will start by discussing how Bitcoin created this expectation of decentralization, and also explain key misperceptions about Bitcoin. Then I will discuss the limitations to how Bitcoin’s principles can be applied in commercial blockchains. These limitations prevent commercial blockchain from reaching the same level of decentralization and disintermediation as is possible in Bitcoin system. I will also discuss under what conditions decentralization and disintermediation is desired or not. I will characterize different roles intermediaries play, and whether blockchain can replace each role.

Bio: Hanna Halaburda is Associate Professor at NYU Stern School of Business. In her research, Halaburda studies how technology and network effects interactions in the marketplace. The most recent theme in her research is the development of digital currencies and blockchain technologies. Halaburda’s work has been published in the leading academic journals. In 2015 she wrote the first book (joined with Miklos Sarvary) analyzing economic forces related to digital currencies, Beyond Bitcoin: The Economics of Digital Currencies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
Hosted by IEOR and kindly sponsored by Guzman and Co.
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LOCATION:
  • Morningside
TYPE:
  • Seminar
CATEGORY:
  • Engineering
EVENTS OPEN TO:
  • Students
  • Staff
  • Faculty
  • Postdocs
  • Alumni
TAGS:
  • IEOR-FE
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