We document the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on digital finance and fintech adoption and usage. Drawing on mobile application data from 71 countries, we estimate that the spread of COVID-19 and related government lockdowns led to between a 33.1 and 36.6 percent increase in the relative rate...

Purpose Gamification is a tool with great potential to motivate individuals to increase their physical activity. That is why sport apps for mobile devices, such as Nike+ or Strava, have integrated game elements. There is, however, little evidence of gamification's effectiveness in this field....

The report "Kultur-Token Sustainable Business Model:Visualizing, Tokenizing, and Rewarding Mobility Behavior in Vienna, Austria" is the result of an ongoing scientific collaboration between the Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics and the City of Vienna. This case study uses business modeling...

Damit Berufstätige langfristig gesund und leistungsfähig bleiben, benötigen sie adäquate Erholung. Die bisherige Forschung hat gezeigt, dass sich Achtsamkeitstraining positiv auf diverse Erholungsprozesse auswirken kann. Im Rahmen der vorliegenden Master-Thesis wurde untersucht, wie sich...

Using panel data on immigrant populations from European, Asian and African countries the study estimates positive associations between the number of mobile applications in use aiming to facilitate immigrants' societal integration (m-Integration) and increased level of integration (Ethnosizer),...

Using panel data on immigrant populations from European, Asian and African countries the study estimates positive associations between the number of mobile applications in use aiming to facilitate immigrants’ societal integration (m-Integration) and increased level of integration (Ethnosizer),...

Contact-tracing mobile phone apps have the potential to play a role in controlling the spread of COVID-19, but their success hinges on widespread uptake by the public. We report a study that behaviourally pre-tested COVID Tracker, Ireland's contact-tracing app, prior to its launch with a large...