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Aug 24, 2026·Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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The Quranic Debt Documentation Mechanism: A Formal Proof of Zero Verification Cost and Correction of Costly State Verification

Haroune Bendekkiche

This paper presents, to the best of our knowledge, the first formal mechanism design treatment of Quran 2:282 as a low-cost verification mechanism. It proves that the Quranic debt documentation mechanism drives the creditor's expected verification cost to zero in the costly state verification framework. It achieves this by creating ex ante evidence through writing and witnessing, and by introducing a dual deterrence system: a fixed internal moral cost and a detection-contingent legal penalty. The paper also offers two interpretative contributions. First, it shows that the Quranic witness rule is an early redundancy mechanism for error correction, anticipating the logic later formalized by Hamming (1950). Second, it proposes an economic reading of the terms safih, da'if, and the inability to dictate, arguing that the guardian who dictates with justice may be a qualified third-party verifier, not merely a relative.

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Islamic Finance and Banking Studies
Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
Game Theory and Voting Systems
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Aug 24, 2026·Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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Residual Trust After Verification: A Microeconomic Account of What Proofs Cannot Eliminate

Toranzo Portela Angel Jose

This paper formalizes residual trust as dependence remaining after verification. It supplies vocabulary (verification surface, residual surface,residual-surface disclosure, trust transfer), maps use cases, compares zero-knowledge proofs with residual trust, presents comparative residual-risk tables,and proposes metrics of verification and residual trust—covering coverage, intensity, residual share r, disclosure completeness, and operationaldetectability—without treating them as calibrated forecasts. Open artefacts are linked for illustration only.Keywords: residual trust; verification metrics; residual surface; zero-knowledge; risk comparison; incomplete contracts.JEL: D23, D82, D86, G30, L14.

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Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
Auction Theory and Applications
Access Control and Trust
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