SLIDES:

Lecture 1. The Economics of Fintechs and Blockchains
Lecture 2. Nakamoto Consensus
Lecture 3. Committee-Based Blockchains
Lecture 4. Decentralized Finance
Lecture 5. Microstructure of Traditional and Decentralized Markets
Lecture 6. Finance and the Wisdom of the Crowd: Crowdsourcing and Prediction Markets
Lecture 7. Portfolio Selection with Emerging Asset Classes (ETFs, Tokens)
Lecture 8. Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs)
Lecture 9. Macro-Financial Implications of FinTechs


Grading
Problem sets 50%
Project: 50%