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NAME
Lin William Cong (叢林)
INSTITUTION
Cornell University
EMAIL
will.cong@cornell.edu
Featured Work
2024
Blockchain for Environmental Monitoring: Theory and Empirical Evidence from China
Nov 21,2024
We present the first piece of empirical evidence on blockchain adoption for environmental monitoring. Using a staggered difference-in-difference (DID) framework,...
Cournot Competition, Informational Feedback, and Real Efficiency
Nov 21,2024
We revisit the relationship between firm competition and real efficiency in a novel setting with informational feedback from financial markets....
Production, Trade, and Cross-Border Data Flows
Nov 21,2024
We build a tractable general equilibrium model to analyze the effects of cross-border data flows and pre-existing development gaps in...
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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 Rise of Factor Investing: Asset Market Implications and "Passive" Security Design
Nov 21,2024
We model financial innovations such as Exchange-Traded Funds, smart beta products, and many index-based vehicles as composite securities (CSs) that...
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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...
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...
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,...
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...