Risk, Transaction Costs, and Tax Assignment: Government Finance in the Ottoman Empire
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Note: We wish to thank the editor of the JOURNAL and two anonymous referees, the participants and discussants at the 2002 Annual Cliometrics Conference in La Crosse, WI; the 2003 Alumni Workshop in Iowa City, IA; and the 2003 Social Science History Association meetings in Baltimore, MD for helpful comments and suggestions. Ali Ozdemir, Sadik Yildirim, and Huseyin Yilmaz provided valuable research assistance.
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- Coşgel, Metin M. & Miceli, Thomas J., 2005. "Risk, Transaction Costs, and Tax Assignment: Government Finance in the Ottoman Empire," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 65(3), pages 806-821, September.
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Keywords
Ottoman Empire; public finance; taxation; risk; transaction costs; tax assignment;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H2 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
- N1 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations
- N3 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy
- N5 - Economic History - - Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment and Extractive Industries
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EEC-2003-02-10 (European Economics)
- NEP-HIS-2003-02-10 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-PKE-2003-02-10 (Post Keynesian Economics)
- NEP-POL-2003-02-10 (Positive Political Economics)
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