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 …

distress. With a focus on Europe, it looks at how these banks’ foreign affiliates have been faring during the recent financial …

innovation. In the early-modern period parliaments declined in influence in southern and central Europe and gained in importance …

Despite large regional policy expenditures, regional inequalities in Europe have not narrowed substantially over the …