productivity growth, i.e. bad times, "increase the political support for more labor market rigidity only where labor appropriates …

paper discusses and situates these results within the recent growth model literature in comparative political economy. …

- together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue … that religion can enhance or impinge upon economic growth through all four elements because it shapes individual …

variations have clearly different effects on growth of sales of firms. Essay 2 estimates the causal effects of economic shocks on … economic growth and events related to the political environment, which is addressed by the instrumental variable method. The … variation in oil prices is used as an instrument for economic growth in the sample of small oil importing economies during 1960 …

– together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue … that religion can enhance or impinge upon economic growth through all four elements because it shapes individual …

—together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue that … religion can enhance or impinge upon economic growth through all four elements because it shapes individual preferences …