Using data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey and a differences-in-differences research design, this paper examines whether any of several common state-level tort reforms affect consumer costs for auto insurance.
Ottoman rule ended with World War I, and Iraq came to be administered by the British Empire as Mandatory Iraq until the establishment of the Kingdom of Iraq in 1933. A republic was established in 1958 following a coup d'Ã©tat.
Iraq's modern borders were mostly demarcated in 1920 by the League of Nations when the Ottoman Empire was divided by the Treaty of SÃ¨vres. Iraq was placed under the authority of the United Kingdom as the British Mandate of Mesopotamia.