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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

Presentation

Monetary Systems and Movement away from Singular Cross-Border Payments/Reserves

Researchers: Sojourner Fitz-Green, Hugh Holtman, Lisa Miyagawa

Presentation

 

 

Perpetual Futures Fragility: The Effect of Stablecoin Funding and Reference-Price Construction

Researchers: Aarush Baradwaj, Bera Gumruk, Krishna Malghan

Presentation

 

 

Break-Even Volatility for Leveraged ETFs:
A Higher-Moment Framework and a Volatility-Gated Switching Rule

Researchers: Arpit Pareek, Arya Dev, Suleiman Rahimzai

Presentation

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