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A teoria do mercado religioso : evidências empíricas da literatura
[The theory of religious market : empirical evidence from the literature]

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  • Oliveira, Livio Luiz Soares de
  • Neto, Giácomo Balbinotto

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This paper deals with the Religious Market Theory. Concepts are presented, drawn of Economics, as, for example, religious commodity, supply and demand for goods and religious services, competition and monopoly in religious market and the degree of regulation in the religious market. We also presented definitions of religious organizations and its types, concepts of religious compensators, and the possible consequences of government intervention in the religious market. The main contribution of this paper is a review of the literature, based on the results of empirical tests, on main premise of Religious Market Theory, this is, that there is a positive correlation between religious pluralism and religious attendance.

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  • Oliveira, Livio Luiz Soares de & Neto, Giácomo Balbinotto, 2013. "A teoria do mercado religioso : evidências empíricas da literatura [The theory of religious market : empirical evidence from the literature]," MPRA Paper 51716, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    Keywords

    Religious Market; monopoly; religious pluralism;
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    • D11 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Theory
    • Z12 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Religion

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