About this episode
This episode covers the digitization of payments and the rise of stablecoins. We discuss China’s CBDC project, the success of USD stablecoins, and the barriers to broader stablecoin adoption. We also examine how stablecoins could reshape the modern payment infrastructure.
Guests: Lin William Cong (Cornell University), Simon Mayer (Carnegie Mellon University)
Paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4063878
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🟣 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ava-labs-x-cber-ep-13-stablecoins-and-digital-payments/id1706838957?i=1000737258244
Guests
Lin William Cong
Rudd Family Endowed Chair Professor of Management and Professor of Finance at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University
Simon Mayer
Assistant Professor of Finance at Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business
Fahad Saleh
Associate Professor at the University of Florida
Andreas Park
Professor of Finance, University of Toronto
