two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to … Social Survey (ESS), the American General Social Survey (GSS), and the International Social Survey Program (ISSP). Estimation … indeed more religious than the populations in the receiving countries, both in Europe and in the United States; and (b) while …

key ingredients: creditor discrimination and crowding-out effects. Creditor discrimination arises because, in turbulent …

Europe. We find that (i) larger firms are less efficient than smaller firms, (ii) greater leverage contributes to corporate …, we find that (iv) efficiency increases when a majority owner must deal with minority shareholders and that (v) domestic … majority owners improve efficiency more than foreign majority owners when no minority shareholders are present, but (vi) the …

Western Europe has an effect on within regional interpersonal inequality. Second, whether this potential relationship is …

The purpose of this paper is to survey and re-interpret the extensive literature that tried to explain both the depth … of the great depression in Europe and the delay of recovery as a failure to coordinate economic policies. Europe could …

This paper examines the economic rationale for concern about the falling rate of growth of Europe's population. It also … assembles demographic and economic time-series data for the countries of Eastern and Western Europe during the postwar period …

This paper reviews the arguments for and against monetary unification in Europe, taking into account the recent shift …