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Central bank digital currency and systemic risk
No full textCentral Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is an emerging Financial Technology (FinTech) area. Several countries are involved in CBDC development at different stages and a few are already in the launching stage. We use the autoregressive distributed lag approach to explore the association between CBDC-related news and systemic risk in the short and long run by employing dynamic panel heterogeneity analysis. The results show that CBDC-related news has a significant negative association with systemic risk in the long run, indicating a positive reception by the global financial sector. Extended analysis shows that the long-run negative association is consistent across different income levels and geographical regions. However, countries in the advanced stages of CBDC development show a significant positive association between CBDC-related news and systemic risk warranting the utmost care in implementing CBDC initiatives
Dietary inflammation, sleep, and mental health in the UK and Japan: an international comparative study
No full textDiet has been repeatedly shown to affect mental and sleep health outcomes. However, it is well known that there are cross-cultural differences in dietary practices as well as the prevalence of mental and sleep health outcomes. Given that the dietary inflammatory potential of diets has been linked to mental and sleep health outcomes, in the current study we sought to assess the inflammatory status of habitual diets and examine its relationship with mental and sleep health outcomes in both the United Kingdom and Japan. Our aim was to determine if the associations between the dietary inflammation index (DII) score and these health outcomes could elucidate any potential cross-cultural differences in health. Online survey data was collected from 602 participants (aged 18-40 years) in the United Kingdom (n = 288) and Japan (n = 314). Participants self-reported their dietary intakes, as well as current mental health and sleep patterns. The DII score was calculated (score range - 2.79 to 3.49) We found that although participants in the United Kingdom reported better overall mental wellbeing, participants in Japan reported less severe depression, anxiety and stress and better subjective sleep quality, less sleep disturbances and daytime dysfunction, despite sleeping shorter, and a better adherence to an anti-inflammatory diet. Moreover, across the United Kingdom and Japan, adherence to more anti-inflammatory diets predicted higher levels of subjective sleep quality, fewer sleep disturbances, less use of sleep medicine and less daytime dysfunction. In conclusion, there are several differences between mental and sleep health outcomes in the United Kingdom and Japan, which could be attributable to the inflammatory potential of respective regional diets. Future studies are warranted to examine the mental and sleep health benefits of adhering to anti-inflammatory traditional Japanese diets in clinical and subclinical cohorts
Central bank digital currency and systemic risk
No full textCentral Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is an emerging Financial Technology (FinTech) area. Several countries are involved in CBDC development at different stages and a few are already in the launching stage. We use the autoregressive distributed lag approach to explore the association between CBDC-related news and systemic risk in the short and long run by employing dynamic panel heterogeneity analysis. The results show that CBDC-related news has a significant negative association with systemic risk in the long run, indicating a positive reception by the global financial sector. Extended analysis shows that the long-run negative association is consistent across different income levels and geographical regions. However, countries in the advanced stages of CBDC development show a significant positive association between CBDC-related news and systemic risk warranting the utmost care in implementing CBDC initiatives
Interpersonal factors that contribute to collective intelligence in small groups a qualitative systematic review
No full textExploring language use, identity and psychological-wellbeing in British-Iranian second-generation diaspora individuals in the UK
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Exploring Data-Driven Real Estate Price Prediction in a Developing Country: The Case of Pakistan
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