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Consulting

2023: CBDC development project, currently under NDA

Presentations & Panels

2023: ▪ CordaDay, R3 (June 14)2021: ▪ Chicago Financial Forum (online) ▪ Wharton Crypto-Governance Group2020: ▪ Chicago Financial Exchange (online)2019: ▪ DEconomy (Seoul, South Korea) ▪ Chicago University Blockchain Symposium (Northwestern University)2018: ▪ Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Education Sessions at Geekdom (San Antonio) ▪ University of Cambridge, Centre for Alternative Finance Launch of Global Cryptoasset Reports (hosted by CME Group, Chicago) ▪ National Association for Business Economics (NABE) - Dallas Chapter ▪ ​San Antonio Texas A&M Club ▪ FinTech DC (IMF, Washington DC)2017: ▪ San Antonio Business and Economics Society Luncheon Speaker (SABES)

Reports & Policy Papers*

* Dr Pieters' pedagogically-oriented work appears on her academic profile.
THE POTENTIAL IMPACT OF DECENTRALIZED VIRTUAL CURRENCY ON MONETARY POLICY (2017) 

Abstract: The border-free nature of decentralized, virtual currencies --- Bitcoin is only one example --- presents an interesting challenge for monetary policy which assumes some amount of government control over cross-border financial flows and exchange rates. At the extreme, decentralized virtual currencies systems may force all countries to accept floating exchange rates and unrestricted financial flows.

​Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas  Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute 2016 Annual Research Report


BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY DISRUPTING TRADITIONAL RECORDS SYSTEMS (2017) 
DISTRIBUTED LEDGER TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK (2018) 
This report is an interdisciplinary, academic-industry partnership to create a unified language and analytic framework that both researchers, developers, and policy-makers can use to allow analyze, model, discuss, and regulate DLT's (and blockchains). ​ December 2018 ; Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance 
2ND & 3RD GLOBAL CRYPTOASSET BENCHMARKING STUDIES (2019, 200) 
This report is constructed from surveys incorporating answers from approximately 75% of firms in the cryptoasset industry, covering exchanges, miners, wallets, and hardware producers.2nd Edition: January 2019; 3rd Edition: September 2020
published by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance. 

Topical Courses (Developed & Taught at the University of Chicago)

  • Cryptoasset Markets (Financial Mathematics Department, FINM 31000, Intensive Topics Course) 
  • International Monetary Systems (Econ 17110; Prerequisite: Principles of Macro, writing-intensive)