This paper studies the impact of birthright citizenship on youth crime. We leverage a reform which automatically granted birthright citizenship to eligible immigrant children born in Germany after January 1, 2000 and administrative crime data from three federal states. Immigrant youth who...

The COVID-19 pandemic constitutes one of the most significant exogenous shocks to global financial markets in recent history, raising questions about the robustness of market efficiency under extreme uncertainty. This study examines whether the pandemic affected the weak-form efficiency of the...

Öl- und Gaspreise sind infolge des Iran-Krieges um jeweils knapp 40 Prozent gegenüber dem Vorjahr gestiegen. Dies erinnert an die Energiekrise zu Beginn des russischen Angriffs auf die Ukraine. Die Inflationsrate lag infolge im September 2022 bei 10 Prozent. Besteht nun das Risiko, dass die...

Zukünftig könnten sich die deutsch-chinesischen Wirtschaftsbeziehungen entlang strategischer Interessen neugestalten. Deutsche Unternehmen bauen Rohstoffabhängigkeiten ab und investieren "in China für China", während chinesische Unternehmen stärker auf den deutschen Markt drängen. Neue...

The present article examines the pioneering case of blockchain adoption in local government by the City of Lugano and discusses how Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) may support institutional innovation beyond pilot experimentation. The Swiss municipality of Lugano has developed an integrated...

The article presents a blockchain-based architecture for decentralized electricity trading that tokenizes energy delivery rights and cash-flows. Energy Attribute Certificates (EACs) are implemented as NFTs, while buy/sell orders are encoded as ERC-1155 tokens whose tokenId packs a time slot and...

Background: Blockchain has been extensively discussed for enhancing transparency, traceability, and trust in general; however, there is fragmented empirical evidence available with respect to this issue within maritime logistics. The objective is to integrate and categorize peer-reviewed...

This study investigates the impact of green agriculture product brand image and blockchain-based food traceability systems on enhancing product trust and its subsequent effects on online agriculture product purchase intention. As consumer demand for transparency and sustainability rises,...