The Economics of Digital Currency Policy

Industry seminar. Globally, there is a debate over how to develop payment systems. Effective approaches are far from settled. Emerging digital currencies, in particular, have significant implications for commercial banking and currency competition.

We have invited Darrell Duffie  of Stanford University, an internationally recognized expert in this field, to outline the related policy concerns and approaches.  

Participants

Darrell Duffie, Adams Distinguished Professor of  Management and Professor of Finance, Stanford University.

Paula da Silva, Chief Executive Officer, P27 Nordic Payments.

David Vestin, Senior Advisor, Riksbank.

Practical information

Date: Friday, June 3

Time: 8:00 – 9:15. Coffee and breakfast sandwiches are served from 7:45.

Location: Swedish House of Finance, Drottninggatan 98, 4th floor.

Registration and cost: The seminar is free of charge and open to SHoF members, *partners, researchers, invited individuals and the media. *partners

Darrell Duffie

is the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management and Professor of Finance at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. He is a Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has recently been an adviser on financial markets to a range of bodies, including the Financial Stability Board and several Federal Reserve banks. He has been called as an expert to witness on Central Bank Digital Currency to the US senate and the UK parliament.