In 2010, Sub-K iTransactions, a business correspondent start-up, implemented a pilot project on dairy payments with village cooperatives of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation. The company sought to migrate cooperatives' payments to farmers, such as revenues from milk or net services...

Through Media.NYC.2020, launched in February 2009, NYCEDC set out to identify specifically what the challenges (and opportunities) facing New York's media sector are in order to secure NYC's place as an industry leader by 2020. Our year-long examination of the dynamics facing the sector drew...

This paper reviews FreeStream, a decentralized streaming application built on the Ethereum Blockchain. FreeStream allows content-creators to live stream to audiences all over the world while also serving as a video platform for organizations. Completely decentralized, it does not track any data...

In a multiperiod investment framework, firms with high expected growth earn higher expected returns than firms with low expected growth, holding investment and expected profitability constant. This paper forms cross-sectional growth forecasts, and constructs an expected growth factor that yields...

Der vom Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie initiierte Fachdialog Ordnungsrahmen für die digitale Wirtschaft soll staatlichen Handlungsbedarf und staatliche Handlungsoptionen für die Etablierung eines kohärenten Ordnungsrahmens aufzeigen, der Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft einerseits...

This paper introduces a new disaggregated and harmonized dataset on public procurement and budget execution by Brazilian subnational entities, which currently covers half of Brazilian municipalities and spans the years 2003-21. This dataset provides key information that was previously...

Amid continuing urban growth and the accelerating effects of climate change, East Asian cities suffer from more extreme temperatures than surrounding rural areas - being up to 2 degrees Celsius hotter on average. This urban heat island (UHI) effect is caused by cities' relative lack of...