Real-world contractual agreements between firms are often incomplete, leading to suboptimal investment and loss of value in supply-chain relationships. To what extent can blockchain technology help alleviate problems arising from contractual incompleteness? We examine this issue by exploiting a...

Today, Individuals have no faith in each other regarding their data, so they need to share their information in a protected and sealed stage. Cybersecurity spending has expanded dramatically in the past ten years without any indication of easing back. Around the world, associations intend to...

With the high-speed development of decentralized applications, account-based blockchain platforms have become a hotbed of various financial scams and hacks due to their anonymity and high financial value. Financial security has become a top priority with the sustainable development of...

As one of the most popular drinks in the world, coffee has limitations in its complex and opaque supply chain. Consumers have difficulty verifying coffee quality according to the price they pay. However, innovative technologies such as blockchain emerge with the potential to support the coffee...

Cryptocurrencies were supposed to replace traditional payment methods when they were invented over 13 years ago, but adoption by the general consumer is still lacking, at least in the United States. Instead, crypto is often used as a speculative investment, by illicit actors, or for use cases...

The recent decade saw an explosion of digital assets and digitalisation of financial services. The present contribution poses several research questions incorporated into a survey questionnaire and grouped into two categories: (1) associations with, knowledge of, and familiarity with notions...

The purpose of this study is to look into the capability of cryptocurrencies as a viable alternative to traditional payment methods in the travel and tourism industry. Given the increasing popular- ity of digital currencies, the tourism industry must consider alternative payment methods. The...

As a highly disruptive digital technology, blockchain provides new solutions for reshaping corporate governance mechanisms and improving resource allocation. We empirically examine the relationship between blockchain and corporate investment inefficiency. We find that blockchain can help improve...