Antoinette Schoar from MIT Sloan School of Managements - Payment systems and crypto currency markets [Macro Finance Society Virtual Summer School 2021]

Antoinette Schoar is the Stewart C. Myers-Horn Family Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

An expert in corporate finance, entrepreneurship, and organizational economics, Schoar researches venture capital, entrepreneurial finance, corporate diversification, governance, and capital budgeting decisions in firms. She has received the Fellowship of the George Stigler Center, 1997–1999, and the ERP Doctoral Scholarship of the German Ministry of Trade, 1995–1997.

Schoar holds a diploma in economics from the University of Cologne, Germany, and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.

Current Research Focus: Schoar's current research focuses on the areas of consumer finance, entrepreneurial finance, and new financial technologies. Some of her ongoing projects investigate how competition in credit card markets impacts consumers, the role of mortgage markets in the economy, applications of behavioral economics to consumer finance and cryptocurrency trading. She is also the cochair of the NBER Corporate Finance group and a cofounder of ideas42, a non-profit that uses insights from behavioral economics and psychology to solve social problems.

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Roadmap of the lecture
• Current state of the ecosystem: What can we learn from the Blockchain?
• Main use cases and drivers of value
• Wider adoption: What are the risks?

Full program of the MFS Virtual Summer School 2021 - [ Ссылка ]

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Macro-finance addresses the link between asset prices and economic fluctuations. Macroeconomics (from the Greek prefix makro- meaning "large" + economics) is a branch of economics dealing with the performance, structure, behavior, and decision-making of an economy as a whole. Macroeconomists study topics such as GDP, unemployment rates, national income, price indices, output, consumption, unemployment, inflation, saving, investment, energy, international trade, and international finance. Asset prices are the prices for which financial instruments, such as stocks, bonds, currencies, etc., are bought and sold.

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