The paper supplements the theory of consumer behavior with insights from the primary sources of Islam. A consumer who …

in Japan. If a consumer has information regarding a future price increase, then she may hoard addictive goods; in this …

is more pronounced in countries where Islam is the source of legislation. Constitutions changed in only four Muslim …

discrimination in Muslim societies. We hypothesize that those Muslim countries in which (political) Islam constitutes an important … words, as Islam becomes a constitutionally prescribed source of legislation in Muslim societies, it is expected that … supremacy of Islam and Shari'a is constitutionally entrenched, religious minorities are indeed likely to face more …

piracy is conducted. As Islam generally prohibits IPR piracy, a set of policy recommendations based on new institutional …

democratic. Hanusch takes issue with my results - and by inference with all past empirical results on the relation between Islam …. He establishes his conclusion by excluding the heartland of Islam from the estimation sample. For his estimates, Hanusch … in the heartland of Islam. -- political institutions ; Islam …