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Katrin Tinn

Title: 
Associate Professor, Finance
Katrin Tinn
Contact Information
Email address: 
katrin.tinn [at] mcgill.ca
Alternate email address: 
christine.nguli [at] mcgill.ca
Address: 

Bronfman Building [Map]
1001 rue Sherbrooke Ouest
Montreal, Quebec
Canada
H3A 1G5

Degree(s): 

PhD, London School of Economics

Area(s): 
Finance
Link(s): 
Personal Webpage
Papers on SSRN
Areas of expertise: 

Technological Innovation and Finance, FinTech, Information Economics, Corporate Finance, Trading and market frictions

Group: 
Faculty
Tenured & Tenure Track
Research areas: 
Blockchain Economics
Corporate Finance
Models of Information & Learning
Technology & Innovation
VC
Selected publications: 

Tinn, Katrin, "A Theory Model of Digital Currency with Asymmetric Privacy", Management Science. (2025), Published Online:1 Aug 2025 (Articles In Advance)

Rossi, Stefano, and Katrin Tinn. "Rational quantitative trading in efficient markets." Journal of Economic Theory 191 (2021): 105127.

Chemla, Gilles, and Katrin Tinn. "Learning through crowdfunding." Management Science 66, no. 5 (2020): 1783-1801.

Tinn, Katrin. "Technology adoption with exit in imperfectly informed equity markets." American Economic Review 100, no. 3 (2010): 925-57.

Chemla, Gilles, and Katrin Tinn. "How Wise are Crowds on Crowdfunding Platforms?" The Palgrave Handbook of Technological Finance (2021): 397–406

Tinn, Katrin. "Distributed Ledger Technologies and Start-up Financing." The economics of Fintech and digital currencies. Center for Economic Policy Research, London (2019): 15-20.

Tinn, Katrin. "Raising Funds with Smart Contracts: New Opportunities and Challenges." World Scientific Book Chapters (2020): 137-155.

Awards, honours, and fellowships: 

Desautels Faculty Scholar

Projects: 
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