Chapter 1. An Overview of Fintech -- Chapter 2. Macroeconomics and Fintech -- Chapter 3. Crypto Assets (Crypto Currencies) and Central Bank Digital Currencies -- Chapter 4. Consumer behavior and Marketing in Fintech -- Chapter 5. Effects of Fintech on Existing Financial Institutions -- Chapter...

It is a widely known fact that the intraday seasonality of trading intervals for financial transactions such as stocks is short at the beginning of business hours and long in the middle of the day. In this paper, we extend the stochastic conditional duration (SCD) model to capture the pattern of...

In 1968, 23 states barred the self-service sale of gasoline. By 1992, close to 80% of all gasoline sales nationwide were marketed through self-service, and only New Jersey and Oregon continued to ban self-service sales. This paper examines the rise of self-service gasoline and its impact on...