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, country of southwestern Asia. 1  During ancient times the lands now comprising Iraq were known as Mesopotamia (âLand Between the Riversâ), a region whose extensive alluvial plains gave rise to some of the worldâs earliest civilizations, including those of Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, and Assyria.