Below are slides for various public and academic talks I have given.
AI, Blockchain, and Identity
MARBLE 2024, Malaga, Spain, June 2024
AI Needs Blockchain: Trustless Solutions to Failures in Machine to Colloidal Markets 2024 NSF/CEME Decentralization Conference, Vanderbilt, April 2024
Bitcoin’s Legacy and Blockchain’s Future
Vandeveer Chair Public Lecture In Economics, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, November 2022
Smart Contracts: Dangerous and not Really Needed
Morpheus Labs Web 3 Sandbox – Hackathon, Singapore, July 2022
Use and Abuse of Game Theory In Blockchain
University of Portsmouth, UK, February 2021
Game Theory for Distributed Systems
Crypto Economics Security Conference, Berkeley, October 2019
Algorithmic Monetary Policy for a Stabilized Token
Macto.wtf, as part of SF Blockchain Week, October 2019
Proof of Honesty: Coalition-Proof Blockchain Validation without Proof of Work or Stake
Decentralization Conference at the University of Michigan, April 2019
ICT and Economic Analysis: Discipline Disruption or Old Wine In New Bottles?
World Bank Mini Boot Camp, March 2019, part 1
Blockchain and CryptoEconomics: An Example and Deeper Dive
World Bank Mini Boot Camp, March 2019, part 2
Making Blockchain Secure at the Edge
DARPA Applications and Barriers to Consensus Protocols Workshop, Washington DC, February 2019
Proof of Honesty: Coalition-Proof Blockchain Validation without Proof of Work or Stake
SSirius Group Meeting, Cheriton School of Computer Science University of Waterloo, November 2018
An Overview of Blockchain, Bitcoin and CryptoEconomics
San Francisco/Bay Area and Portland Oregon Vanderbilt Alumni Chapter, November 2018
An Introduction to Blockchain, Bitcoin, and CryptoEconomics
Tennessee Tech University, Window on the World April 2018
Blockchain Basics
Golden Triangle Angel Network, Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, February 2018
An Introduction to Blockchain, Bitcoin, and CryptoEconomics
Vanderbilt Alumni Metro New York Chapter Talk, January 2018
The Economics Of Crypto-Tokens and Initial Coin Offerings
Business and the Blockchain, Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University, April 25 2017
Coase Theory and the Coase Theorem
Plenary Lecture in Honor of Ronald Coase, 18th Annual Conference of The International Society for New Institutional Economics, June 2014
Public Goods, Bounded Attention Spans, and Equilibrium in the Internet Economy
Slides for the Summer Workshop Economic Theory, Paris 2014
Capitalization, Decentralization, and Intergenerational Spillovers in a Tiebout Economy with Durable Public Goods
Slides for talks given in Taipei, Napoli, Penn State, KU, UW, and various places in 2012-17
A Dixit-Stiglitz general equilibrium model with oligopolistic markets: Enough is Enough
Slides for talks given at WU, BU, Exeter, Tokyo, Seoul, Roma, Istanbul, and various other places, 2012-15
Theory: What is it good for?
Erasmus Distinguished Lectures: Frontiers of Economic Theory, Paris School of Economics – Université Paris 1, June 2013
Using Coalition and Network Theory
Erasmus Distinguished Lectures: Frontiers of Economic Theory, Paris School of Economics – Université Paris 1, June 2013
The Economics of Cloud Computing
Erasmus Distinguished Lecture: Frontiers of Economic Theory, Paris School of Economics – Université Paris 1, June 2013
The Economics of Cloud Computing
MSPE Public Lecture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, October 2012
Incentives and Effects of Publication Lags on Life Cycle Productivity in Economics
PET11-Bloomington, June 2011
The Economics of Cloud Computing
Gosnell Lecture – Rochester Institute of Technology, April 2011
Current State of Electronic Academic Publishing
Invited Lecture, Office for Information Management – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, November 2007
Current State of Research in Public Economics
Invited Lecture, Georgia State University, July 2007