Estimation of the state of the domestic market of goods

The paper examines the state of the domestic market goods of Ukrainian, based on methodological approaches to assessing the state of the domestic market. The distribution of coefficients of change of individual indices of the internal market of goods with the account of information orientation of indicators is substantiated. The group of coefficients was substantiated and introduced and the method of calculation was determined. As a result, the distribution of indicators for assessing the state of the domestic market, taking into account their informational heterogeneity, was formed and substantiated. The evaluation of indicators of a functional nature, a structural nature, a factor and a determining factor was conducted in order to obtain a generalizing indicator of the state of the domestic market of goods

Three essays on church competition: the role of economic modernization, historical legacies, and national sentiments

Mención Internacional en el título de doctorThere is a well-accepted consensus in the existing literature that the theory of church competition has been put on hold waiting for more theoretical clarification and empirical scrutiny (Lechner 2007). Church competition should be studied in line with the ecological and path-dependency perspectives. The main goal of this dissertation is to answer to this demand. Each chapter of this dissertation has its own goals. The goal of the first chapter is to study the interaction of religious competition and economic modernization in the Netherlands during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Religious competition between Roman Catholics, Liberal Protestants and so-called Orthodox Protestants was embedded in the process of economic modernization. While previous studies largely focused on a division between Catholics and Protestants, this chapter stresses the intra-doctrinal schisms within Protestant groups. Such divisions are known in the literature as pillarization. The first chapter aims to study the extent to which pillarization influenced occupational attainment of male workers. The goal of the second chapter is to explore historical legacies of pillarization in the Netherlands with respect to religious belonging. While previous studies have stressed the theoretical importance of path-dependency, very few of them have investigated this matter empirically. Most of the historical studies focus on the past, rarely modeling the long-term consequences of historical religious markets. This chapter analyzes whether religious competition in 1909 in the Netherlands influences religious belonging in the same country in the 2000s. The goal of the third chapter is to address intra-doctrinal competition of the Orthodox Church jurisdictions in the context of post-Communist religious and national revivals. This chapter shows that intra-doctrinal competition of the Orthodox jurisdictions positively affected religious affiliations, church attendance, subjective religiosity, and praying at home among Ukrainians. This effect was particularly strong for individuals who preferred Ukrainian language.Programa Oficial de Doctorado en Historia EconómicaPresidente: Robert Michael Fishman; Secretario: Steven Pfaff; Vocal: Michael Bigg