...Laura Swenson ABSTRACT This study examines the association between world religions and the earnings attribute of conservatism. I group the major world religions into two sub-groups, Western and Eastern. Prior literature documents that followers of Western religions have a lower preference for risk...

... Financial Crisis.” Editor's note: Accepted by Wolfgang Schultze. informal institutions accounting-based risk measures trust religion media bank failure bank financial trouble financial crisis Researchers have long been interested in how institutions evolved and whether and how...