Anthony Lee Zhang
Institution
University of Chicago Booth School of Business
PhD Year
2019
anthony.zhang@chicagobooth.edu
FTG Membership
Member
Website
https://anthonyleezhang.github.io/
Featured Work
Jun 30, 2025
Competition in the Cryptocurrency Exchange Market
Cryptocurrency exchange market structure is fragmented, since cryptocurrencies are fungible, but customers cannot move freely across cryptocurrency exchanges. We build a model where exchanges with captive customers are linked by arbitrageurs, showing that ``star-shaped'' equilibria can exist, in which arbitrageurs endogenously coordinate on one exchange as a liquidity hub. The model predicts that large exchanges' listing decisions should influence price dispersion, arbitrage flows, trade volumes,...
Jun 30, 2025
The Pricing of Property Tax Revenues
A property tax can be thought of as a capital structure, which divides a stream of rents into components accruing to the homeowner and to the government. Near-term rents mainly accrue to homeowners, and far-term rents mainly accrue to governments. This characterization implies that the value of property tax revenues is very sensitive to interest rates, that governments funded by tax revenues have future-biased incentives...