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NAME
Lin William Cong (叢林)
INSTITUTION
University of Chicago
EMAIL
will.cong@chicagobooth.edu
Featured Work
2018
Blockchain Disruption and Smart Contracts
Feb 14,2018
Blockchain technology features decentralized consensus as well as tamper-proof and algorithmic executions, and consequently enlarges the contracting space through smart...
Up-Cascaded Wisdom of the Crowd
Feb 14,2018
Economic activities such as crowdfunding often involve sequential interactions, observational learning, and successes contingent on achieving certain thresholds of support....
Persuasion in Relationship Finance
Sep 10,2018
Relationship finance as seen in bank lending and venture capital features incumbent financiers' observing interim information after initial investment but...
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Persistent Blessings of Luck
Apr 05,2017
Persistent fund performance in venture capital is often interpreted as evidence of differential abilities among managers. We present a dynamic...
Persuasion in Relationship Finance
Aug 18,2017
Relationship finance as seen in bank lending and venture capital features incumbent financiers' observing interim information after initial investment but...
2016
Rise of Factor Investing: Asset Prices, Informational Efficiency, and Security Design
Dec 30,2016
We model financial innovations such as Exchange-Traded Funds, smart beta products, and many index-based vehicles as composite securities that facilitate...
Dynamic Interventions and Informational Linkages
Dec 30,2016
We model a dynamic economy with strategic complementarity among investors and endogenous government interventions that mitigate coordination failures. We establish...