Ende Oktober 2018 hat der Sachverständigenrat für Verbraucherfragen das Gutachten "Verbrauchergerechtes Scoring" vorgelegt. Es geht dabei um die sich ausbreitende Praxis, immer mehr Aspekte des Verhaltens der Bürger durch "Scores" vorherzusagen oder zu steuern. Scoring ist durch eine Reihe...

Die G20 und die internationalen Standardsetzer haben beim G20-Gipfeltreffen keine weitreichenden Beschlüsse zu Krypto-Assets getroffen. Noch werden die potenziellen globalen Risiken als zu gering eingeschätzt, um die Stabilität des Finanzsystems zu gefährden, darum soll vorerst nur...

We present a model for assessing how the UK's system of market-based finance — an increasingly important source of credit to the real economy since the financial crisis — might behave under stress. The core of this model is a set of representative agents, which correspond to key sectors of...

The 2nd Global Alternative Finance Market Benchmarking Report contributes 2019 and 2020 data, collected from financial technology firms that undertake digital lending and digital capital raising activities, to our globally comparable panel database on alternative finance. The study was supported...

We demonstrate how government deleveraging causes corporate distress in a distorted financial market. Our difference-in-differences (DID) analysis exploits China's top-down deleveraging policy in 2017, which targets shadow bank financing and reduces local governments' borrowing capacity. We find...

Purpose - Construction projects are fraught with hazards that have a detrimental impact on schedules, estimates, and quality. The project execution phase exposes contractors to internal and external hazards, either implicitly or explicitly. A project's achievement is contingent on the proper...

A new industrial development paradigm, the Fifth Industrial Revolution or 'Industry 5.0' is expected to humanise green technological innovation (GTI), social resilience, and sustainable development of industrial ecosystems. Emphasising the supplier-customer interaction, 'Industry 5.0' is...

The study characterizes financial monitoring as part of the system for preventing and counteracting the legalization of income and the financing of terrorism. The purpose of the research is to study the experience of how national financial monitoring systems function (in the UK, USA, China,...

We study the effect of Department of Justice lawsuits in the 2010s against large lenders for alleged fraud in the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage insurance program. The suits led to more than $5 billion in settlements and caused targeted banks and their peers to precipitously exit...