Implemented by an increasing number of organisations worldwide, the ISO 9001 standard for quality management received considerable attention in the existing literature. Researchers worldwide have found positive, negative and even mixed effects of ISO 9001 certification on firms' performance,...

Discovering of price of labour is perhaps one of the grand challenges in micro-economics because the issue is beset with politics, and behavioural economics. But, if we cast a glance at the amount of time citizens around the world spent on education, it would not be difficult to convince...

DeFi has become quite popular among crypto asset investors, and there are several possible reasons for this. The primary justification for using DeFI is that by eliminating counterparties to financial transactions to the bare minimum number of participants, only the customer or investor and the...

The U.S. housing finance market has not yet recovered from the housing price bubble that peaked in late 2006. Even though prices have fallen significantly, there are still problems in clearing the market. For the last few years, a group of financial economists and practitioners who are part of...

Moratoriums (most comparable to US Automatic Stay) are important mechanisms for companies in insolvency proceedings. During the moratorium period, creditors’ individual actions are normally suspended. As such, it provides insolvent companies with a breathing space to negotiate with creditors,...