Call for papers - Crypto Valley Conference

Economics and Finance Call for Papers

The “Economic and Financial Track” of the 2020 Crypto Valley Conference will bring together scholars, regulators and practitioners interested in exploring opportunities and risks of emerging blockchain-based systems and distributed Ledger technologies.

The aim is to merge the gap between academics, technologists, policy makers and regulators engaged in the new field of distributed and peer-to-peer systems, by providing a unique cross-sectoral perspective which allows to exhaustively address questions of practical importance from an economic, financial and business perspective.

Submissions should focus on (but are not limited to) the following topics:

Economics

Monetary aspects of P2P systems

Stable coins and digital fiat

Incentive mechanisms in emerging blockchain networks

Individual and group decision-making

Principles of the decentralised crypto-economy

Implications of blockchain for income inequality

DLTs, transaction costs and externalities

Finance

Market stability and systemic risk of distributed systems

Financial inclusion

Regulation of distributed systems

Fraud detection and financial crime prevention

Tokenisation of assets, pricing and new derivatives

The future of ICOs/STOs: opportunities and threats

Blockchain and accounting systems

Decentralised hedge funds

Price discovery and deep liquidity on distributed exchanges

Business

Blockchain and new business models

Decentralised Autonomous Organisations

Metcalfe’s law applied to digital asset ecosystems

Corporate governance under the blockhain paradigm

Creative destruction in the digital era

Accepted papers will be considered for a publication into Frontiers in Blockchain journal – Financial Blockchain
The editorial guidelines must thus follow the standard requested by the journal (please refer to the following link: Guidelines)

Submitted papers will be blindly reviewed by the Crypto Valley Scientific Committee for the Economic and Financial Track. Any mention of the author's names or affiliations should be removed from the submitted paper. For any questions regarding the call for papers and the submission, please write to the following address: ecosubmit@cryptovalleyconference.com

Authors wishing to contribute a paper to the conference should do it via the submission system. Full papers must be submitted in PDF format.