Risk, transaction costs, and tax assignment: Government finance in the Ottoman Empire

Journal of Economic History

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 806-821

  Coşgel, Metin M ^a   Miceli, Thomas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCAL GOVERNMENT; RISK FACTOR; TAX SYSTEM; TRANSACTION COST;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; TURKEY; WORLD;

EID: 26844434409     PISSN: 00220507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S002205070500029X     Document Type: Article

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