Timur Kuran

Duke University - Department of Economics

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Box 90097

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1.

Availability Cascades and Risk Regulation

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 51, No. 4, 1999, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 181, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 384, Harvard Public Law Working Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 90 Posted: 30 Oct 1998
Timur Kuran and Cass R. Sunstein
Duke University - Department of Economics and Harvard Law School
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availability heuristic, informational cascades, reputational cascades, cost-benefit analysis

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The Islamic Commercial Crisis: Institutional Roots of Economic Underdevelopment in the Middle East

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The Islamic Commercial Crisis: Institutional Roots of Economic Underdevelopment in the Middle East

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 25 Jul 2001
Timur Kuran
Duke University - Department of Economics
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The Islamic Commercial Crisis: Institutional Roots of Economic Underdevelopment in the Middle East

Journal of Economic History, Vol. 63, No. 2, June 2003
Posted: 17 Oct 2002
Timur Kuran
Duke University - Department of Economics

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The Provision of Public Goods Under Islamic Law: Origins, Contributions, and Limitations of the Waqf System

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The Provision of Public Goods Under Islamic Law: Origins, Contributions, and Limitations of the Waqf System

USC CLEO Research Paper No. C01-13
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 27 Jul 2001
Timur Kuran
Duke University - Department of Economics
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The Provision of Public Goods Under Islamic Law: Origins, Contributions, and Limitations of the Waqf System

Law and Society Review, Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 841-97, 2001
Posted: 27 Aug 2002
Timur Kuran
Duke University - Department of Economics

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The Financial Power of the Powerless: Socio-Economic Status and Interest Rates under Partial Rule of Law

Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper No. 175
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 23 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2016
Timur Kuran and Jared Rubin
Duke University - Department of Economics and Chapman University - The George L. Argyros College of Business and Economics
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Rule of law, elite, status, religion, gender, court, interest rate, credit, financial market, Ottoman Empire, Istanbul, Islam, Islamic law, Sharia

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Keeping while Giving: The Perpetuation of Inequalities through Private Islamic Waqfs

Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper No. 305
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 29 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 20 Aug 2024
Fatih Serkant Adiguzel and Timur Kuran
Sabanci University - Sabanci University and Duke University - Department of Economics
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N95, G51, P50, O53, K11 waqf, inequality, elite, redistribution, property rights, wealth shelter, philanthropy, charity, social service, religion, afterlife, Islam, Islamic law, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire

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Economic Modernization in Late British India: Hindu-Muslim Differences

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Economic Modernization in Late British India: Hindu-Muslim Differences

Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper No. 92
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 25 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2012
Timur Kuran and Anantdeep Singh
Duke University - Department of Economics and University of Southern California - Center for Religion and Civic Culture
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India, Islam, Hinduism, capital accumulation, inheritance, partnership, corporation, waqf, economic development

Economic Modernization in Late British India: Hindu-Muslim Differences

Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper No. 53
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 09 Aug 2010
Timur Kuran and Anantdeep Singh
Duke University - Department of Economics and University of Southern California - Center for Religion and Civic Culture
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India, Islam, Hinduism, capital accumulation, inheritance, partnership, corporation, waqf, economic development

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The Scale of Entrepreneurship in Middle Eastern History: Inhibitive Roles of Islamic Institutions

Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper No. 10
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 11 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2009
Timur Kuran
Duke University - Department of Economics
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Entrepreneurship, Middle East, Islam, development, business history

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Zakat: Islam’s Missed Opportunity to Limit Predatory Taxation

Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper No. 284
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 08 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 10 May 2019
Timur Kuran
Duke University - Department of Economics
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Zakat, Islam, taxation, predation, governance, property rights, poverty

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Cultural Integration and its Discontents

USC CLEO Research Paper No. C02-14
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 12 Sep 2002
Timur Kuran and William H. Sandholm
Duke University - Department of Economics and University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Economics
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Economic Harbingers of Political Modernization: Peaceful Explosion of Rights in Ottoman Istanbul

Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper No. 288, revised, August 2024
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 09 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2024
Asli Cansunar and Timur Kuran
University of Washington and Duke University - Department of Economics
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political modernization, legal reform, redistribution, discrimination, financial innovation, equity market, property rights, religion, Islam, Ottoman Empire

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Judicial Biases in Ottoman Istanbul: Islamic Justice and Its Compatibility with Modern Economic Life

Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper No. 52
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 02 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2012
Timur Kuran and Scott Lustig
Duke University - Department of Economics and Independent
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Institutional Roots of Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East: Civic Legacies of the Islamic Waqf

Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper No. 171
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 13 Jun 2014
Timur Kuran
Duke University - Department of Economics
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Middle East, Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Arab world, Egypt, Islamic law, sharia, waqf, democracy, autocracy, civil society, political participation, collective action, coalition, corporation, foundation, trust, institutional change.

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Between Consumer Demand and Islamic Law: The Evolution of Islamic Credit Cards in Turkey

Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper No. 182
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 23 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2015
Murat Çokgezen and Timur Kuran
Marmara University and Duke University - Department of Economics
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Banking, Credit card, Islam, Interest, Turkey

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Expanding Discrimination Research: Moving Beyond Ethnicity and to the Web

USC CLEO Research Paper No. C03-2, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 03-5, Social Science Quarterly, Vol. 85, pp. 717-730, September 2004
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 25 Feb 2003
Timur Kuran and Edward J. McCaffery
Duke University - Department of Economics and University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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Discrimination, ethnicity, physical appearance, beauty, economic inequality, public opinion, mode effect,

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Explaining the Economic Trajectories of Civilizations: The Systemic Approach

Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper No. 11
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 11 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2008
Timur Kuran
Duke University - Department of Economics
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civilization, culture, economic development, institution, institutional complementarity

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Sex Differences in the Acceptability of Discrimination

USC CLEO Research Paper No. C05-7, USC Legal Studies Research Paper No. 05-17
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 28 Jul 2005
Timur Kuran and Edward J. McCaffery
Duke University - Department of Economics and University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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Discrimination, sex differences, surveys, public opinion, social desirability bias

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The Absence of the Corporation in Islamic Law: Origins and Persistence

American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 53, pp. 785-834, July 2005, USC Law and Economics Research Paper No. 04-21; and USC CLEO Research Paper No. C04-16
Posted: 02 Sep 2004
Timur Kuran
Duke University - Department of Economics

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Islam, Middle East, development, partnership, joint-stock company, corporation, organization, individualism, law

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Why the Middle East is Economically Underdeveloped: Historical Mechanisms of Institutional Stagnation

USC Center in Law, Economics and Organization Research Papers (CLEO), #C03-24, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 18, pp. 71-90, Summer 2004
Posted: 03 Dec 2003
Timur Kuran
Duke University - Department of Economics

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The Logic of Financial Westernization in the Middle East

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 56, pp. 593-615, April 2005, USC CLEO Research Paper No. C03-14
Posted: 21 Jul 2003
Timur Kuran
Duke University - Department of Economics

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Islam, Islamic world, Middle East, development, modernization, finance, interest, bill of credit, bill of exchange, banking, partnership, inheritance law, cash waqf, minorities

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The Economic Ascent of the Middle East's Religious Minorities: The Role of Islamic Legal Pluralism

Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 33, pp. 475-515, June 2004, USC CLEO Research Paper No. C03-1
Posted: 24 Jan 2003
Timur Kuran
Duke University - Department of Economics

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Islam, Islamic World, Middle East, Economic Development, Modernization, Choice of Law, Legal Pluralism, Minorities, Christians, Armenians, Greeks, Jews, Muslims, Partnership, Courts, Banking, Commerce, Inheritance

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Ethnic Norms and Their Transformation Through Reputational Cascades

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Ethnic Norms and Their Transformation Through Reputational Cascades

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Duke University - Department of Economics

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Ethnic Norms and Their Transformation Through Reputational Cascades

Center for Economic Studies Working Paper No. 150
Posted: 06 Nov 2003
Timur Kuran
Duke University - Department of Economics

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