The success of Bitcoin has spurred emergence of countless alternative coins with some of them shutting down only few weeks after their inception, thus disappearing with millions of dollars collected from enthusiast investors through initial coin offering (ICO) process. This has led investors...

Insurance has been around for more than centuries. This risk mitigation strategy has been utilized in maritime commerce as early thousand years ago, where Asian merchant seafarers were pooling together their wares in collective funds to pay for damages of individual’s capsized ship. In 2018,...

An ex-post informed Sender wishes to persuade a rational Bayesian Receiver to take a desired action, as in the classic Bayesian Persuasion model studied by Kamenica and Gentzkow (2011). However, we consider settings in which Sender cannot reliably commit to a signal mechanism. An alternative...

The data science technologies like Blockchain, Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have disrupted significant industries worldwide and provided intelligent, efficient, and secure solutions to conduct business in public and private sectors. With the internet,...

Despite the scholarly consent that blockchain technology can play a central role for implementing circular economies (CEs) to arrive at cleaner consumption and production, the blockchain adoption rate by companies for this purpose is low. While this might be partly caused by technology maturity...

Blockchain is an emerging technology perceived as ground-breaking by many domain experts. Prior studies and market reports keep signaling the overall potential of blockchain technology globally in the last decade. However, the predictions from these studies may not be adequate for technology...