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Katrin Tinn

Title: 
Associate Professor, Finance; Head of CIBC Office of Sustainable Finance, Sustainable Growth Initiative (SGI)
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 72.5 (2026): 3699-3719. Best Paper Award at the 5th annual CBER (Crypto and Blockchain Economics Research) Conference.

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 66.5 (2020): 1783-1801.

Tinn, Katrin. "Technology adoption with exit in imperfectly informed equity markets." American Economic Review 100. 3 (2010): 925-57.

Friberg, Richard, Mario Milone, and Katrin Tinn. "Assessing the Global Impact of Transit Countries in a Gravity Model." forthcoming in Scandinavian Journal of Economics (2026).

Luo, Junliang, Katrin Tinn, Samuel Ferreira Duran, Di Wu, and Xue Liu. "Decoding RWA Tokenized US Treasuries: Functional Dissection and Address Role Inference." In 2026 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), pp. 1-9. IEEE, 2026.

Luo, Junliang, Xihan Xiong, Zonglun Li, Hong Kang, Xue Liu, William J. Knottenbelt, and Katrin Tinn. "Sok of RWA tokenization: A systematization of concepts, architectures, and legal interoperability." In 2026 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), pp. 1-20. IEEE, 2026.

Working papers in advanced stages:

Tinn, Katrin, and Gilles Chemla. “Digital Ownership: The Tokenization of Real-World Assets.” CEPR Discussion Paper No. 21512 (2026). Revise and Resubmit in Review of Finance.

Kartik, Navin, Francesco Squintani, and Katrin Tinn. "Information Revelation in Constant-Sum Games: Elections and Beyond." arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.17084 (2024). Revise and Resubmit in Theoretical Economics.

Tinn, Katrin. " 'Smart' Contracts and External Financing." Available at SSRN 3072854 (2018).

Book chapters:

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

CEPR Fellow, Banking and Corporate Finance

Bank of Canada's Model X Challenge (2021), with Christophe Dubach 

Projects: 
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