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.
After the fall of the Assyrian Empire in 612 BC, Mesopotamia was ruled by a succession of foreign dynasties. Eventually, after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of World War One, the modern state of Iraq was formed, a state that became independent in 1932.