For over three decades, money laundering has been an area of concern for policymakers and law enforcement, with significant efforts undertaken at national and international levels to combat it. Recently, laundering of criminal proceeds using real property has attracted increased attention...

Competition agencies and many other related policy and regulatory authorities and regimes on for example consumer protection, product safety, privacy, conventional and digital financial services, the environment, healthcare, and occupational health and safety are now paying much greater...

The aim of the this study is to analyze the impact of the macroeconomic sphere on the dynamics of European sovereign swaps in following period 2003-2016 for seven European countries (Bulgaria, Romania, Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain). Eurozone membership is a variable that has a...

The current legal analysis on the blockchain technology focuses on the financial regulation of the cryptocurrencies and little investigation is done in the area of privacy regulation of this technology.This research shows that the blockchains are much more nuanced than could be served by a...

In the December 2020, the European Commission has presented its proposal for a Digital Market Act (DMA) aiming at promoting competition and preventing unfair practices on digital markets. The DMA creates a new category of platforms, "gatekeepers'', based on criteria relative to their turnover...

Identifying whether hyperbolic advertising claims influence consumers is important for consumer protection, but differentiating mere "puffery" from misleading advertising is not straightforward. We conducted a pre-registered experiment to determine whether pseudo-technical advertising claims...

We show that the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) reduced data sharing online, but had the unintended consequence of increasing market concentration among technology vendors that provide support services to websites. We collect panel data on the web technology vendors...

Modern websites rely on personal data to analyze traffic on their websites and market them- selves. We study the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which requires that sites seek user consent to process personal data like cookie identifiers and email ad- dresses. We...

The emergence of insurance is related to the need for people to help each other in the case of the ever increasing damages, and of the reinsurance to support among them those who manage the insurance funds and activities. In the context of the market economy, of the current challenges at global...

Sustainability has become one of the constant concerns of active participants in the food chain: producers, traders, consumers, and regulators. The paper aims to identify consumers' perceptions of the use of sustainable food packaging, in an exploratory survey of a sample of 280 respondents,...