Future of Finance Lab Junior Scholars Research
The Lab has accepted 15 scholars from around the country from high schools and colleges in Texas, California, Illinois, Virginia, Rhode Island, Maryland and other states. The researchers have tackled several challenging finance issues over the summer to produce white papers and journal publication on the following topics (papers attached below and presentations as well):
Stablecoins and the Consequences of Dollar Dominance
Researchers: Aiden Lee, Mishka Kandhari, Sarah Dalmet, Christina Liu
Presentation
Agentic AI and Preferences for Medium of Exchange
Researchers: Aditya Shah, Jiayi Zhou, Daniel Gulley
Monetary Systems and Movement away from Singular Cross-Border Payments/Reserves
Researchers: Sojourner Fitz-Green, Hugh Holtman, Lisa Miyagawa
Perpetual Futures Fragility: The Effect of Stablecoin Funding and Reference-Price Construction
Researchers: Aarush Baradwaj, Bera Gumruk, Krishna Malghan
Researchers: Arpit Pareek, Arya Dev, Suleiman Rahimzai