Conference Agenda

Session

Blockchain & GenAI

Time:

Friday, 13/Mar/2026:

3:30pm - 5:15pm

Session Chair: Kuntara Pukthuanthong, University of Missouri

Location: Pacific 3

Presentations

Harnessing Generative AI for Economic Insights

Jialin Qian¹, Manish Jha², Baozhong Yang², Michael Weber³

¹Rochester Institute of Technology; ²Georgia State; ³Purdue University

Discussant: Vineet Bhagwat (George Washington University)

Irreversibility and Hysteresis in Blockchain Validation Markets

Peter Mueller

Fordham University

Discussant: KJ (Kyoung Jin) Choi (University of Calgary)

Systemic Risk by Design? Causal Evidence on Endogenous Blockchain Security

Pablo Azar¹, Maryam Farboodi²

¹Federal Reserve Bank of New York; ²Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discussant: Yikang Shen (Carnegie Mellon University)