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(c) ENER

 

1st ENER Workshop 

Granada, Spain, November 16-17, 2007

Friday, November 16th

9:50 Opening of the Workshop

10:00-11:00 Session I: Economic Theory

  • Solano, Angel (w. Brañas-Garza, P.)
    University of Granada
    “Why do European Governments favour religions 
  • K. Rai, Birendra
    Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena
    Your Conscience You Must Keep, or it Must be Kept for You”

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 Session II: Empirical Economics

  • Heineck, Guido (stand-in for withdrawn paper)
    University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
    Religion, attitudes towards working mothers and women’s labor market participation: Evidence for Germany, Ireland, and the UK”  
  • Bettendorf, Leon (w. Dijkgraaf, E.)
    Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
    ”Does the homogeneity assumption hold for the relation between religion and income across countries?”

13:00-15:00 Lunch

15:00-16:00 Keynote Lecture

  • Prof. John Sawkins
    Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
    “Entry in Local Religious Markets” 

16:00-17:30 Session III: Economic Consequences of Religiosity

  • Facchini, Francois
    University of Rheims, France and U. of Paris 1 THESE (Team LAEP-MATISSE)
    “Islam and property right”
  • Platteau, Jean-Philippe
    Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium
    ”Religion, Politics, and Development: Lessons from the Lands of Islam”

 Saturday, November 17th

10:30-11:30 Session IV: Economic History  

  • Nonneman, Walter
    University Centre Saint-Ignatius, Antwerp, Belgium
    ”On the economics of the socialist theocracy of the Jesuits in Paraguay (1609-1767)”  
  • Ormerod, Paul (w. Roach, A.P.)
    Volterra Consulting, London, UK
    ”Religious Ideology and Information Cascades: the Emergence of Protestant England in the mid-16th Century”

11:30-12:00 Coffee Break

12:00-13:00 Session V: Secularization  

  • Sánchez-González, Carlos (w. Brañas-Garza, P. and Muñoz-García, T.M.)
    University of Granada
    “Changes in Attitudes towards Religion in Mediterranean European Countries”  
  • Muñoz-García, Teresa (w. Brañas-Garza, P., and Neuman, S.)
    University of Granada
    Unraveling Secularization: An International Study”