Oct 30, 2020 | CAL2020 Program Committee
Investments, Economics, and Regulation for Bitcoin and Crypto Assets
The 2nd Crypto Asset Lab Conference was held online on October 27th.
The conference, also known as CAL2020, was co-organized and promoted by Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Digital Gold Institute and European Commission-Joint Research Centre
CAL2020 focused on all aspects of Bitcoin and crypto-assets, especially those pertaining to investment, banking, finance, monetary economics, and regulation.
The work of the conference was open by the rapresentatives of the organizing committee: Ferdinando M. Ametrano, scientific director of the Crypto Asset Lab, Paola Bongini, full professor of Banking and Finance at Milano-Bicocca University and faculty member, and Lucia Alessi, DG Joint Research Centre of the European Commission.
Giovanna Iannantuoni, Rector of University of Milano-Bicocca, had given the institutional greeting University of Milano-Bicocca.
The opening session was concluded with the keynote speech “Bloggers and Bitcoin Prices: A Textual Machine Learning Analysis” by Eric Ghysels, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
It was then the turn of the papers’ presentation. Based on the numerous high-quality papers accepted, the session was organized in different streams, each of which was a specific core-topic:
- Crypto-economics, moderated by Paola Bongini, University of Milano-Bicocca;
- Legal and regulatory, moderated by Francesca Mattassoglio, University of Milano-Bicocca and faculty member;
- Quantitative modelling, moderated by Gianna Figà-Talamanca, University of Perugia;
- Investments, moderated by Gianfranco Forte, University of Milano-Bicocca and faculty member,
A round table on the developments in crypto-assets policy and regulation was then held, coordinated by Antonella Sciarrone Alibrandi, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. The panel has seen the interventions of Marco Petracco Giudici, DG Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Dirk Andreas Zetzsche, University of Luxembourg, Filippo Annunziata, Bocconi University, and Maria Teresa Chimienti, European Central Bank.
The conference registered 232 attendees and each of the different sessions were well attended.
All of us at DGI have appreciated the amazing work of the Program Committee, and have enjoyed all presentations.
Selected papers presented at the conference are invited for submission to the special issue of the Economic Notes (EN) journal on “Special issue on Crypto-assets in finance, law and regulation where do we stand?” and related topics, scheduled for publication in early 2022.
Registrations of each session is available in the videos at the conference program page.
CAL2020 has been sponsored by: CheckSig, The Rock Trading, and Deloitte.
The 3rd Crypto Asset Lab conference is upcoming next September 2021.