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(March 2020) Guest Lecture in University of Chicago "ECON13000: Introduction to Money and Banking" (upcoming)
(February 2020) One of guests interviewed on BBC podcast "The Digital Human" on Bitcoin mining.
(February 2020) Guest Lecture at University of Chicago "LAWS42505: Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies"
(December 2019) Op-Ed in CoinDesk: What is a Cryptocurrency? We Need Clearer Definitions
(December 2020) Guest Lecture at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Finance490: Fintech"
(October 2019) New paper: Taxing Blockchain Forks, joint with Mattia Landoni
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Professional Summary
I am a Assistant Instructional Professor at University of Chicago - Department of Economics and an honorary non-visiting Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge - Center for Alternative Finance (CCAF). These positions accurately encapsulate my two interests:
How successful am I at these two goals? According to Social Science Research Network, I am among the top 200 economic authors in the world (out of 27,361 ranked) gauged by research interest (paper downloads in past 12 months), and according to RePEC I am among the top 400 academic/research economists by Twitter followers.
My cryptocurrency research focuses on their use and implication as a globally traded alternative to national currencies or assets. This incorporates topics such as exchange rates, capital controls, and the global financial and monetary system (including Central Bank Digital Currency) especially in relation to the decentralization that comes from distributed ledger technology. I have been interviewed by various media outlets, including NPR, BBC, and Coindesk, and have given both academic and non-academic talks. I sporadically maintain a list of data sources, academic centers, and other crypto-academics for those interested.
I am comfortable teaching both micro and macro core courses (principles and intermediate, calculus and non-calculus based), as well as econometrics and computational economics (the "core skills" courses), and topics in international macroeconomics, international trade, and money and banking. I have taught writing intensive, undergraduate research-focused upper-division "topic" courses in international trade and international macroeconomics. I have taught large lectures (over 300 students), small classes (under 15 students), and have coordinated instructors and TA's across multiple principles of macroeconomics sections to create a uniform department teaching outcome (>1000 students, 4 instructors). I have received many teaching awards, and several of my undergraduate students have presented the results of their supervised research at undergraduate conferences, or won awards for their thesis. I have also advised several Masters-level thesis papers.
I maintain an active, informal Twitter account (not affiliated with my employer) where I give opinions or thoughts about current academic research, teaching practices at the college/university level, academia in general, video games, board games, current events, or any other wisps that catch my attention.
Other
(March 2020) Guest Lecture in University of Chicago "ECON13000: Introduction to Money and Banking" (upcoming)
(February 2020) One of guests interviewed on BBC podcast "The Digital Human" on Bitcoin mining.
(February 2020) Guest Lecture at University of Chicago "LAWS42505: Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies"
(December 2019) Op-Ed in CoinDesk: What is a Cryptocurrency? We Need Clearer Definitions
(December 2020) Guest Lecture at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Finance490: Fintech"
(October 2019) New paper: Taxing Blockchain Forks, joint with Mattia Landoni
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Professional Summary
I am a Assistant Instructional Professor at University of Chicago - Department of Economics and an honorary non-visiting Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge - Center for Alternative Finance (CCAF). These positions accurately encapsulate my two interests:
- making economics less insular increasing accessibility of modern economic theory to non-PhD. economists,
- pursuing a research agenda examining decentralized virtual currencies and their impact on international economics.
How successful am I at these two goals? According to Social Science Research Network, I am among the top 200 economic authors in the world (out of 27,361 ranked) gauged by research interest (paper downloads in past 12 months), and according to RePEC I am among the top 400 academic/research economists by Twitter followers.
My cryptocurrency research focuses on their use and implication as a globally traded alternative to national currencies or assets. This incorporates topics such as exchange rates, capital controls, and the global financial and monetary system (including Central Bank Digital Currency) especially in relation to the decentralization that comes from distributed ledger technology. I have been interviewed by various media outlets, including NPR, BBC, and Coindesk, and have given both academic and non-academic talks. I sporadically maintain a list of data sources, academic centers, and other crypto-academics for those interested.
I am comfortable teaching both micro and macro core courses (principles and intermediate, calculus and non-calculus based), as well as econometrics and computational economics (the "core skills" courses), and topics in international macroeconomics, international trade, and money and banking. I have taught writing intensive, undergraduate research-focused upper-division "topic" courses in international trade and international macroeconomics. I have taught large lectures (over 300 students), small classes (under 15 students), and have coordinated instructors and TA's across multiple principles of macroeconomics sections to create a uniform department teaching outcome (>1000 students, 4 instructors). I have received many teaching awards, and several of my undergraduate students have presented the results of their supervised research at undergraduate conferences, or won awards for their thesis. I have also advised several Masters-level thesis papers.
I maintain an active, informal Twitter account (not affiliated with my employer) where I give opinions or thoughts about current academic research, teaching practices at the college/university level, academia in general, video games, board games, current events, or any other wisps that catch my attention.
Other
- "Pieters" is pronounced as "Peters".
- Feel free to reach out with media or speaker requests: I consider public communication and education about economics and economic research an important part of my role as an academic. However! To protect my time I no longer agree to talk at events where my travel and accommodation are not compensated. Additionally, if people are required to buy tickets to attend you need to pay me an honorarium. Standard exemptions for academia and policy institutions apply. From April to June, 2020 I will be unlikely to accept any requests outside of the immediate Chicago area.
- I am not interested in leaving academia for a corporate job (though some of your projects are very interesting!). Any consulting work would need to pass conflict-of-interest, not impact or restrict my research freedom, and be paid.
- I am told I should provide BTC/ETH addresses to communicate that I am a "serious" crypto-academic. Here are my Coinbase wallets. Yes, that information is 100% a litmus test for gate-keeping/elitist reactions:
- BTC address: 1GaAzQa6YzgT5AxM1h38JgDxdcbXLTF6hp
- ETH address: 0x180dcf7954e6fbbaA6331Bf088568EFC0f06832A
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Contact Information
University of Chicago, Department of Economics 1126 E. 59th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 |