About
Alexander Webb is recent finance PhD graduate and advisor at GoPoint Ventures, a NYC-area venture capital firm. He is a published author whose work has appeared in the New York Times, National Geographic, Investopedia, Business Insider, WIRED, and more. His academic research has been published in The Journal of Futures Markets, Finance Research Letters, Financial Innovation, Applied Finance Letters, and more. His graduate work looks at trust and financial innovation.
He was thrice shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize. His undergraduate degree was completed at the University of Hong Kong and he speaks Mandarin at a conversational level.
Selected Publications:
Books:
Shock Markets: Trading Lessons for Volatile Times – The Financial Times Press (co-author)
The Civil War: A Traveler’s Guide – National Geographic (co-author)
The Zika Prevention Handbook – Skyhorse (author)
Selected Articles:
You Could Die Today. Here’s How to Reduce That Risk – The New York Times
The Difference Between Copyrights, Trademarks, and Patents – The New York Times
How to Promote Your Music Online – Wired Magazine
3 Steps to Start Building Your Own Retirement Plan – Business Insider
Synthetic Data, Real Insights – GoPoint Ventures
Investing in The Age of National Security: How Geopolitcs Shapes Today’s Startups – GoPoint Ventures
Alexander was the author of a special issue of National Geographic, and his work has also appeared in two other special issues of the magazine.
Academic Research:
“Financial contagion in cryptocurrency exchanges: Evidence from the FTT collapse” (with Luca Galati and Robert Webb) published in Finance Research Letters in 2024.
“Market behaviors around bankruptcy and frozen funds withdrawal: Trading stranded assets on FTX” (with Luca Galati and Robert Webb) published in the Journal of Economics and Business in 2024.
Intelligent design: stablecoins (in)stability and collateral during market turbulence (with Riccardo De Blasis, Luca Galati, and Robert I. Webb) Published in Financial Innovation in 2023.
“Arbitrage, contract design, and market structure in Bitcoin futures markets” (with Riccardo DeBlasis), published in The Journal of Futures Markets in 2022.
“Liquidity of Futures Markets Over the Last Quarter of a Century: Technology & Market Structure Versus Economic Influences” (With Alex Frino and Luca Galati) and published in Applied Finance Letters in 2022.
Awards:
Alex was shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize in 2015, 2016, and 2020.
get in touch: alex (at) alxndrwbb.com