Scientific Activities

Bitcoin Ownership and Usage Seminar: October 18, 2022

Daniela Balutel, Brown Bag lunch seminar: October 18, 2022 at 12:00pm Title: Bitcoin Ownership and Usage in Canada 2016 – 2021 Location: Department of Economics, Seminar room

Presentation at the Atlantic Canada Economics Association

Presentation at the 48th meeting of the Atlantic Canada Economics Association at Dalhousie University, October 14-16, 2022 Organized by Dalhousie University “Digital Divide: Empirical Study of CIUS 2020” presented by Peter Mackenzie and Pujee Tuvaandorj Peter was awarded the prize for the best student presentation

Presentation at the 13th CEQURA Conference

CEQURA Conference on Advances in Financial and Insurance Risk Management, October 7, 20222. Organized by the Society for Financial and Insurance Econometrics, a platform for presenting and discussing current developments in research & industry. “Digital Divide: Empirical Study of CIUS 2020” presented by Peter Mackenzie and Pujee Tuvaandorj

Partnership with Statistic Canada

A partnership of Statistics Canada and the York University Division of the Vice-President Research & Innovation. Data and in-kind support provided at York Statistics Research Data Centre (RDC). Statistics Canada: Research Project “Digital Inclusion” 21-MAPA_YRK-7219 approved by Statistics Canada on December 21, 2021.

MITACS Accelerate – External Grant Approved

MITACS Accelerate: “Past and Current Bitcoin Adopters in Canada”, Postdoc student: Daniela Balutel (PhD Universite d’Orleans), Partner Organization: Bank of Canada, collaborator: Kim P. Huynh, M. Voia, Academic co-supervisor: Henry Kim; approved on August 23, 2022.

Bank of Canada Visit

Bank of Canada and Ipsos collaborates with York University. Bank of Canada presents two research seminars at York University on June 7, 2022: “Private Digital Cryptoassets As Investment? Bitcoin Ownership and Usage in Canada, 2016-2021” “What drives exits from Bitcoin market? Evidence from Canada” …and enjoys dinner with our team. Speakers – Kim Huynh, Christopher […]

CEA 2022 Conference Presentation

Emre Inan, Ph.D. student at York University, presents at the Canadian Economic Association 2022 Conference: “Noncausal Time-varying Coefficient Models for Stablecoin Prices“ Co-authors: Antoine Djogbenou and Joann Jasiak

Team

With diverse team of researchers, our team allows for interdisciplinary collaboration within each project. This will permit us to develop nuanced assumptions, formulate realistic and comprehensive research models, validate our results, and execute a dissemination strategy that reaches diverse audiences. Principal Investigators: Joann Jasiak & Henry Kim Investigators: Irene Henriques, Sotirios Liaskos, Andrea Podhorsky, Poonam […]

Digital Currencies research proposal approved

December 2021 Our research proposal on “Digital Currencies” has been awarded… Principal Investigators – Joann Jasiak and Henry M. KimInvestigators – Irene Henriques, Sotirios Liaskos, Divinus Oppong-Tawiah, Andrea Podhorsky, Poonam Puri