Future of Finance Lab Junior Scholars Research

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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 will be tackling the following questions over the summer to produce white papers and journal publication on the following topics (to be posted below).  Each student will be paired with a subject matter expert/professor in the field to write on the following issues:

 

 

Project 1: Stablecoins and the Consequences of Dollar Dominance

Researchers: Aiden Lee, Mishka Kandhari, Sarah Dalmet, Christina Liu

 

 

Project 2: Agentic AI and Preferences for Medium of Exchange

Researchers: Aditya Shah, Jiayi Zhou, Daniel Gulley

 

 

Project 3: Monetary Systems and Movement away from Singular Cross-Border Payments/Reserves

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

 

 

Project 4: ETF Tracking Error and Volatility

Researchers: Aarush Baradwaj, Bera Gumruk, Krishna Malghan

 

 

Project 5: ETF Leverage and Tracking Error Break-even points

Researchers: Arpit Pareek, Arya Dev

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