Introduction

Cryptoassets ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Regulatory Policy ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Financial Products ◽  
The Social ◽  
Asset Class ◽  
Central Bankers ◽  
Financial Relationships

Cryptoassets are an increasingly high profile and at times controversial asset class of financial products aiming to transform how money is transferred, capital is raised, and financial relationships and obligations are memorialized. This book attempts to demystify these new digital instruments through a series of varying and often interdisciplinary investigations, across economics, law, and the social sciences. Contributors include many of the leading experts in the field, with expertise as technologists, academics central bankers, market regulators and attorneys. In tapping this breadth of views and backgrounds, this book seeks to provide cutting-edge analysis and understanding of cryptoassets—and cryptoasset regulatory policy—for generalists and experts alike.

Social sukuk: A new mechanism to fund social services

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Saadiah Mohamed ◽  
Jaizah Othman ◽  
Othmar Lehner ◽  
Ruhaini Muda
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Risk Sharing ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Islamic Finance ◽  
Social Sector ◽  
Banking And Finance ◽  
Finance Industry ◽  
Financial Products ◽  
The Social ◽  
Asset Class

While the premise of Islamic finance embraces  the principles of maqasid al-shariah and risk sharing with  claims to social justice and welfare, the direct impact of the modern Islamic finance industry and its contribution to the social sector  has been limited. This paper examines the claim among critics that there is an inherent  weakness of the present day Islamic banking and finance in terms of its underdeveloped social sector and argues for the need for new models that will enhance a proliferation of shariah compliant financial products  for solutions in the social sector. The paper examines the emergence in Social finance of  social bonds as new financing tools targeting on  social needs and problems that otherwise would not be tackled.  This paper discusses  the benefits of  structuring such a shariah compliant product and  makes recommendations for structuring this new asset class  referred to in this paper  as social sukuk. 

What Can We Learn From Factorial Surveys About Human Behavior?

Methodology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Knut Petzold ◽  
Tobias Wolbring
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Actual Behavior ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Factorial Survey ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Intended Behavior ◽  
The Social ◽  
Survey Experiments ◽  
High Level

Abstract. Factorial survey experiments are increasingly used in the social sciences to investigate behavioral intentions. The measurement of self-reported behavioral intentions with factorial survey experiments frequently assumes that the determinants of intended behavior affect actual behavior in a similar way. We critically investigate this fundamental assumption using the misdirected email technique. Student participants of a survey were randomly assigned to a field experiment or a survey experiment. The email informs the recipient about the reception of a scholarship with varying stakes (full-time vs. book) and recipient’s names (German vs. Arabic). In the survey experiment, respondents saw an image of the same email. This validation design ensured a high level of correspondence between units, settings, and treatments across both studies. Results reveal that while the frequencies of self-reported intentions and actual behavior deviate, treatments show similar relative effects. Hence, although further research on this topic is needed, this study suggests that determinants of behavior might be inferred from behavioral intentions measured with survey experiments.

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