The paper finds that the post-pandemic inflation surge and subsequent decline from 2021 to 2024 had no significant impact on public support for the Euro for the EA-19 and for most individual member states of the EA-19. From 2021 to 2024, net public support for the euro remained remarkably stable...

Using longitudinal data from the Gallup Panel covering more than 30,000 U.S. employees surveyed from 2023 to 2025, I document heterogeneous adoption of generative AI and its "organizational transmission" within firms. First, I show that the share of active (occasional) AI users grew from 9% to...

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,...

This report provides a brief overview of the achievements of the Rapid Social Response Multi-Donor Trust Fund (RSR) in the fifteen years from its inception during the global financial crisis of 2008/9 to its closing in 2024. Over these fifteen years, the RSR awarded $149.8 million in 420 grants...

We test whether AI-generated news images affect outlet demand and trust. In a preregistered experiment with 2,870 UK adults, the same article was paired with a wireservice photo (with/without credit) or a matched AI image (with/without label). Average newsletter demand changes little. Ex-post...

Over the last few decades society has lost significant trust in the work of the scientific community and debated the trustworthiness of scientific findings and (policy) implications. In response, an open science framework has been proposed based on accessibility and transparency of data and...

The transition to neighborhood-scale district heating in the Netherlands frequently stalls due to the challenge of achieving a collective agreement among individual homeowners. To explore the micro-dynamics of this collective action problem, this paper introduces an agent-based model that...

The digitalization of finance has accelerated the diffusion of FinTech and raised new questions about how AI, data security and blockchain shape consumer behaviour. This article examines current FinTech users, focusing on mobile banking, security perceptions, AI-enabled personalisation and trust...

By constructing a unique international database on generalized trust covering 142 countries worldwide for 41 years from 1980 to 2020, this paper finds a pronounced intertemporal variation of generalized trust over time in a majority of countries across the globe. When analyzing the time series...

Purpose - This study examines Salvadorans' perceptions of the Bitcoin Law, which made Bitcoin legal tender on September 7, 2021. Design/methodology/approach - We administer a survey in El Salvador and analyze the data using, among other methods, OLS regressions, ordered logit and ordered probit...

This study explores the under-researched area of cognitive-affective trust transference within the context of short-form videos (SFV) on the TikTok platform. It also provides new insights into the impact of source homophily that arises from viewing SFV. The study incorporates trust transfer...

We map the intellectual structure of teamwork in project management (PM) using a triangulated bibliometric design to interrogate 16,320 Scopus records (1966-November 2023). Three complementary lenses-keyword co-occurrence (topical cohesion), bibliographic coupling (research front), and...

Context: In Switzerland, about two-thirds of young people start dual vocational education and training (VET) at around 15 years of age. Research shows that they are challenged in many ways during this phase of their lives and are therefore particularly vulnerable. Thus, supporting the transition...

This paper studies trust, reciprocity, and bargaining using a large-scale online experiment conducted in six Latin American countries. Participants played trust and ultimatum games under randomly assigned conditions in which the gender of their counterpart was either disclosed or withheld. On...

We study how confidence bias affects investment in learning via experimentation, a mechanism critical for technology adoption under uncertainty. We hypothesize that bias direction and strength predict how willingness to experiment diverges from unbiased agents. We measure revealed and stated...

This thesis operationalises the European Health Data Space (EHDS) notion of a Secure Processing Environment (SPE) by translating technology-neutral regulatory obligations into implementable and testable platform requirements. Following a Design Science Research approach, it introduces a...

This paper examines the unintended consequences of policies perceived as inequitable by leveraging Italy's Quota 100 pension reform, which denied early retirement to workers with identical contribution histories who did not meet an age cutoff. Using SHARE data and a difference-in-differences...

Ökologische Ökonomen trafen sich per Zoom in den Jahren 2021 und 2021 regelmäßig mit Mitarbeitern des Vatikans, um in einem Circle of Ecological Economic Elders (CoEEE) wichtige Impulse aus der 2015 veröffentlichten Enzyklika von Papst Franziskus "Laudato sí. Über die Sorge für das...

Vertrauen bildet das Fundament stabiler Gesellschaften und ist essenziell für das reibungslose Funktionieren von Demokratien, Wirtschaftssystemen und sozialen Strukturen. Doch in Zeiten multipler Krisen - von wirtschaftlicher Unsicherheit über politische Polarisierung bis hin zu den...

Money, capitalist market societies' paramount contract, relies on the belief in its enduring value. However, we still know surprisingly little about the social foundations that sustain that belief. How is our collective trust in the enduring value of money socially built, and what happens if...

Dieser Sammelband bietet keine Antworten auf alle im Vorwort aufgeworfenen Fragen der aktuellen Arbeitswelt. Vielmehr soll er als Anregung und Inspiration für die Gestaltung der Gegenwart und nahen Zukunft dienen. Die Grundlage liegt im hohen Praxisbezug der Kapitel. Die Autorinnen sind...

AI systems are becoming increasingly complex and human-like, and we interact with them more and more frequently. How does perceived human-likeness affect trust in AI systems? And what makes AI systems appear human in the first place? In a scoping review, we first examined the relationship...

The transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in public governance is increasingly recognized across both developed and developing economies. Governments are exploring and adopting AI technologies to enhance service delivery, streamline administrative efficiency, and strengthen...

As AI-powered personalized advertising becomes increasingly prevalent in the digital marketplace, understanding its influence on consumer purchase intention is essential. This study investigates the impact of perceived personalization on purchase intention, with a particular focus on the...

This study investigates the influence of store image attributes and consumer green food trust in customer satisfaction and store loyalty within the context of Vietnam's emerging food market. Grounded in the Commitment-Trust Theory, the Open Innovation Dynamics Theory and the Theory of Planned...

This study examines the factors that influence user trust in AI-powered digital agents within organizational contexts. Employing an integrated framework that combines the Expectation Confirmation Model and the Technology Acceptance Model, we investigated how user expectations, attitudes toward...

This paper provides novel empirical evidence on how political fragmentation shapes the fiscal transmission mechanism. Using data from 16 OECD countries (1978-2019) and narrative accounts to identify exogenous fiscal interventions, we show that when political fragmentation is high, the fiscal GDP...

BRAC has over 40,000 schools worldwide. It is widely praised for serving disadvantaged students and for matching or outperforming government schools. Using data that we collected from Dhaka's slums, we test these claims. We find that BRAC serves the most disadvantaged students in our survey, but...

The rise of AI chatbots in e-commerce has revolutionized digital customer service, yet understanding the factors influencing customer adoption remains a challenge. Drawing on the Technology Acceptance Model 2 and Anthropomorphism theory, the study aims to examine how human-like interaction...

We investigate the determinants of states' policy capacity, defined as the ability of states to craft effective policies. Our model shows that the interaction between politicians' implementation decisions and bureaucrats' motivation to design effective policies can lead to the coexistence of...

The subjective judgment and discretionary actions of a manager can influence the core strategy, investment, operations, and decision-making of a company. Managerial actions from the top, particularly the board, plays a vital role in addressing this inclination. While scholars have shown interest...

This paper examines how the legacy of socialist regime in countries of Central and Eastern Europe has affected innovation and R&D cooperation and compares this to Western Europe. Our analysis reveals that the negative impact of socialism on innovation Central and Eastern European countries is...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities of companies have been reported to generate favorable consumer attitudes towards the business, which in turn, encourages positive consumer behavior. But the application of this conclusion in the mobile commerce domain remains limited. Drawing on...