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Revolut, a British fintech company, achieved a remarkable success - As a digital-only bank with the highest valuation, funding, revenues, and total deposits, it emerged as a leader of the digital revolution in banking. While Revolut still has a long way to measure up with the top traditional banking institutions in the United Kingdom, it has already become an alternative that challenged their market power and pushed them to compete. This case study is an in-depth analysis of Revolut’s rise as a digital bank.

What, from the philosophical point of view, is conceptually sound or problematic about the use of indicators in quantitative social scientific research about happiness.

The goal of this paper is to analyze the network around Revolut, a London company that has emerged from a startup offering an inter-bank rate currency exchange to a challenger bank that is the second largest in the world and the largest in Europe by market valuation. To that end, I consider the network structures of financial, human, and social capital flows around Revolut.

By conducting a large online survey targeted at a region with spatial discontinuity, this research documents persistent effects of the Partitions of Poland on contemporary differences in culture and social capital between formerly Prussian and Russian regions.

My results suggest that a longer duration of a Communist regime is associated with an increase in generalized trust, while personally living longer in Communism has no significant effect. There seems to be little heterogeneity of the effects in terms of the length of exposure to the regime.

Considering the lack of substantial research in the area, this paper takes the relationship between transport infrastructure and decentralization as its main subject of analysis. Is decentralization associated with improved transport infrastructure provision in developing countries?

Contemporary French secularism is a product of both a break from religious tradition and a partial compromise with the Catholic Church, meaning that French secularism, in its present form, is incompatible with the French Muslim perspective on the role of religion in public life and fails to approach Islam as a religion with its own unique characteristics, which are distinct from those of Catholicism.