then use a variety of datasets to show that when a state repeals its blue laws religious attendance falls, and that church …

conclusion has implications for the study of institutions, economics, and religion throughout history and in the developing world …When the mortality rate is high, repeated interaction alone may not sustain cooperation, and religion may play an … populations and the church promoted the doctrine of purgatory, guilds that bundled together religious and occupational activities …

The Catholic Church has been making saints for centuries, typically in a two-stage process featuring beatification and … canonization. We analyze determinants of rates of beatification and canonization (for non-martyrs) over time and across six world … naming of blessed persons seems to reflect a response by the Catholic Church to competition from Protestantism or …

We analyze the impact of financial globalization on business cycle synchronization utilizing a proprietary database on …

behind this crisis is the large demand for riskless assets from the rest of the world. In this paper we present a model to …

The economic changes associated with globalization tighten financial pressures on governments of high-income countries … and import tariffs, much more heavily than do larger countries. Since the rapid pace of globalization implies that all …

What is the role of transport improvements in globalization? We argue that the nineteenth century is the ideal testing …

government spending can bolster support for globalization by reducing the risk associated with it in the minds of voters …

in approximately 4000 markets per country. We then move from groundnuts to globalization by building an exact TFP index … the typical country in the world, new imported varieties account for 15 percent of its productivity growth. These effects …