Islamic and cooperative banks such as credit unions are broadly similar in that they both share some risk with savers. However, risk sharing goes along with ownership control in cooperatives, whilst Islamic banks share risk with borrowers and downside risk with depositors. Islamic banking is...

Data as a resource and data sharing enable competitive supply chains and present-day digital platform business models. The recipe for these competitive supply chains will no longer be contingent on how different companies contract to share data in their existing business networks but how these...

This paper aimed to evaluate the impact of the current EU energy crisis on Romania s policies to boost green energy as a solution to balance the national energy mix. Our methodological approach was a mixed one using both bibliometric analysis and qualitative analysis based on experts interview....

This paper focuses on computational reproducibility and robustness replicability of Gubler et al.'s(2022) studies which examine the effect of media messages on empathic concern, dissonance, and out-group policy attitudes. The original paper tests four hypotheses using two online experiments with...

The paper presents the concept of the "silver economy" as an economic system related to population aging and underlines the features of this policy idea. The study first introduces the discourse and stages of constructing this system by international and national public policy actors in aging....

The Quran is the primary source for the teachings and tenets of Islam. There are two to three other sources of Islamic doctrines to which one may also refer. As times change, the community may change social and economic policies rooted in Islamic values in order to meet a society's shifting...

The humankind did not and does not attain the required level of the local-global development praxis and cognitive internalization of the (hypothetical) reality to sustain large scale world changes to be a support-set of the decision making regarding local-global development (including pro-market...

Financial systems and public treasuries are communicating vessels: strength or weakness in one flows to the other, and back. This chapter considers the implications of this insight using case studies from Europe, Asia, and Latin America. The connection is not unique to Europe, although it does...

We have developed a quantitative indicator to predict if and when a series of protests in China, such as the one that began in Hong Kong in 2019, will be met with a Tiananmen-like crackdown. The indicator takes as input protest-related articles published in the People's Daily—the official...

This paper discusses policy issues "in" cyberworlds, rather than "on" them. Many virtual worlds, online games and other online communities, develop their own exchange system, and the virtual economies have become increasingly important to our real lives. But since virtual economies have...