Annual WBS Gillmore Centre Conference - Call for Papers

Call for Papers for the 2025 Warwick Business School Gillmore Centre Conference on DeFi & Digital Currencies  - 2 September, 2025 WBS The Shard, London

Please click on the 'register' link above to make the payment and email your paper to gillmorecentre@wbs.ac.uk

Organised by the Gillmore Centre for Financial Technology at Warwick Business School.

We are pleased to invite submissions from all areas of DeFi and Digital Currencies, including, but not limited to:

  • Optimal design, governance and market efficiency of DeFi Protocols (exchanges, lending protocols, NFTs)
  • Economics of the blockchain (mechanism design, security, and welfare)
  • Financial stability, macroeconomic, and political economy implications of stable coin and CBDC designs.

We encourage both theoretical and empirical contributions.

2025 Keynote Speaker - Christine Parlour, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

The conference will be held in person at Warwick Business School at the Shard, London 2 September 2025. In addition, we will co-host Bank of England's "Innovations in Money and Payments" conference, which will be held 3-4 September 2025. A separate call for papers will be released soon by the Bank of England.

SUBMISSION DETAILS: The deadline for submissions is 22 June. Papers for submission should be sent as a PDF with the filename beginning with the last name of the submitting author and emailed to gillmorecentre@wbs.ac.uk.  A submission fee of £45 should be paid by clicking the "Register" button above. Please include the payment confirmation number of your payment when emailing the paper. Submission fee waivers will be granted upon request for authors with exceptional circumstances. Authors of accepted papers will be notified in mid-July.

INTERESTED PARTICIPANTS: If you wish to attend the conference but do not wish to submit a paper, please email gillmorecentre@wbs.ac.uk  to convey your interest. A registration link will be provided at a later date.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Joseph Abadi, Yackolley Amoussou-Guenou, Bruno Biais, Rhys Bidder, Agostino Capponi, James Chapman, Irem Erten, Rod Garratt, Wenqian Huang, Olga Klein, Roman Kozhan, Michael Kumhof, Alfred Lehar, Katya Malinova, Simon Mayer, Alistair Milne, Cyril Monnet, Andreas Park, Julien Prat, Fahad Saleh, Bazil Sansom, David Skeie, Ruslan Sverchkov, Ganesh Viswanath-Natraj, Kathy Yuan, Anthony Lee Zhang, Zhengge Zhou, Marius Zoican.

CONFERENCE ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Vicki Belt, Matt Hanmer, Kate Higton, Olga Klein, Roman Kozhan, Jiao Liu, Bazil Sansom, David Skeie, Ruslan Sverchkov, Ganesh Viswanath Natraj.

FURTHER INFORMATION: If you have any additional comments or questions, email gillmorecentre@wbs.ac.uk.