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Unravelling Secularization: an International Study

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

The current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their life left it. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as ‘no religion’. A battery of explanatory variables (country-specific ones, personal attributes and marriage variables)...

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The Cost of Disinflation and the European Monetary System

De Grauwe, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1989

In this paper we present empirical evidence indicating that the EMS countries have experienced a worsening of their inflation/unemployment trade-off since 1979 which on average was more pronounced than in the rest of the OECD area (including the other European countries). We interpret this...

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Bridges or Buffers? Motives behind Immigrants’ Religiosity - A Comparative Study of Europe and the United States

García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to … indeed more religious than the populations in the receiving countries, both in Europe and in the United States; and (b) while … Europe it has mainly the function of a buffer and of a “balm for the soul”. There is an extensive literature on the ‘bridge …

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The Political Economy of Monetary Union in Europe

De Grauwe, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

The Maastricht transition strategy towards monetary union is based on the idea that the transition strategy should be gradual, and that entry into the union should be conditional on the fulfilment of convergence criteria. It is argued in this paper that this approach is not based on an economic...

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