Agnes Yang

I am on the job market 2024-2025 year!

My research focus is on how emerging technologies shape governance and market practices through disintermediation. Specifically, my dissertation consists of two streams: (i) how blockchain technologies enable new forms of organizing and decision-making; (ii) how they mitigate gender and racial biases in traditional marketplaces, by eliminating intermediaries such as management authorities and art galleries.

By exploring the potential and limitations of blockchain technologies, I aim to guide organizations and marketplaces toward better adoption of decentralized systems suited to their objectives.

My dissertation consists of three essays, which are on:

1. The role of token ownership in DAO* governance: A job market paper
2. Community-managed governance, learned from everyday community discourse in DAOs
3. How disintermediation enabled by NFT** market may help mitigate the gender- and racial- bias in art market.

* DAO: decentralized autonomous organization, ** NFT: non-fungible token