The Financial Power of the Powerless: Socio-Economic Status and Interest Rates under Partial Rule of Law
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Keywords
Rule of law; elite; status; religion; gender; court; interest rate; credit; financial market; Ottoman Empire; Istanbul; Islam; Islamic law; sharia;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- G10 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
- K42 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
- N2 - Economic History - - Financial Markets and Institutions
- N4 - Economic History - - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation
- N95 - Economic History - - Regional and Urban History - - - Asia including Middle East
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CWA-2015-01-19 (Central and Western Asia)
- NEP-LAW-2015-01-19 (Law and Economics)
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