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NAME
Lin William Cong (叢林)
INSTITUTION
Cornell University
EMAIL
will.cong@cornell.edu
Featured Work
2023
Market Integration, Risk-Taking, and Income Inequality
Dec 30,2023
A pandemic or nationalism can dial back global integration as much as advancements in IT and transportation spur it. We...
Production, Trade, and Cross-Border Data Flows
Dec 30,2023
We build a tractable general equilibrium model to analyze the effects of cross-border data flows and pre-existing development gaps in...
The Tokenomics of Staking
Dec 30,2023
Blockchain-based platforms and decentralized finance prominently features ``staking'': Besides offering a convenience yield for transactions as digital media of exchange,...
The Rise of Factor Investing: "Passive" Security Design and Market Implications
Dec 30,2023
We model financial innovations such as Exchange-Traded Funds, smart beta products, and many index-based vehicles as composite securities (CSs) that...
A Model of Influencer Economy
May 22,2023
With the rise of social media and streaming platforms, firms and brand-owners increasingly depend on influencers to attract consumers, who...
2022
The Coming Battle of Digital Currencies
Nov 28,2022
We model the dynamic competition among national fiat currencies, cryptocurrencies, and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), whereby countries strategically digitize...
Antitrust, Regulation, and User Union in the Era of Digital Platforms and Big Data
Nov 28,2022
We model platform competition with endogenous data generation, collection, and sharing, thereby providing a unifying framework to evaluate data-related regulation...