determinants of the shares of major currencies in the reserve holdings of the world's central banks. Significant factors include … euro might in the future rival or surpass the dollar as the world's leading international reserve currency appears to …

predictions using data on the foreign operations of US Protestant denominations in 2005 from the World Christian Database … productivity of pastor effort is higher. These findings shed light on factors determining the composition of religion within …

country's legal system is more important than its religion and language in explaining shareholder rights. However, a country …'s principal religion helps predict the cross-sectional variation in creditor rights better than a country's openness to … international trade mitigates the influence of religion on creditor rights. Religion and language are also important predictors of …

waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation …

based on differences in average answers to questions from the World Values Survey. Using a simple theoretical model we …

Questions about current and prior religion adherence from the International Social Survey Program and the World Values … religion adherence classified into eight major types. In a theoretical model based on rational individual choice, the frequency …;wrongquot; religion. Empirical findings for a panel of countries accord with several hypotheses: religious-conversion rates are positively …