Junior Scholars Research

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 have tackled several challenging finance issues over the summer to produce white papers and journal publication on the following topics (papers attached below and presentations as well). 

Onchain data for several of these papers was provided by Allium.

Stablecoins and the Consequences of Dollar Dominance

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

Agentic AI and Preferences for Medium of Exchange

• Researchers: Aditya Shah, Jiayi Zhou, Daniel Gulley
• Presentation

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

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

Perpetual Futures Fragility: The Effect of Stablecoin Funding and Reference-Price Construction

• Researchers: Aarush Baradwaj, Bera Gumruk, Krishna Malghan
• Presentation

Break-Even Volatility for Leveraged ETFs:
A Higher-Moment Framework and a Volatility-Gated Switching Rule

• Researchers: Arpit Pareek, Arya Dev, Suleiman Rahimzai
• Presentation

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