Research

Publications

The Demand for Extraterritoriality: Religious Minorities in Nineteenth-Century Egypt (with Mohamed Saleh), Economic History Review (2023) [Main Text][Online Appendix][Latest Draft]

Legal Origins of Corporate Governance: Choice of Law in Egypt, 1887–1914, Economic History Review 77, no. 1 (2024): 03-40 [Lead Article][Main Text][Online Appendix][Latest Draft]

The Impact of Business Cycle Conditions on Firm Dynamics and Composition, Journal of Economic History 83, no. 2 (2023): 398-430 [Main Text][Online Appendix][Latest draft]

Set and Forget? The Evolution of Business Law in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey (with Seven Ağır), Business History Review 95, no. 4 (2021): 703-738 [Main Text]

Partnership as Experimentation (with Timothy W. Guinnane),  Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization 35, no. 3 (2019): 455-488 [Lead Article][Main Text]

Religious Minorities and Firm Ownership in Early Twentieth-Century Egypt, Economic History Review 72, no. 3 (2019): 979-1007 [Main Text]

The Wealth Tax of 1942 and the Disappearance of Non-Muslim Enterprises in Turkey (with Seven Ağır), Journal of Economic History 79, no. 1 (2019): 201-243 [Main Text]

The Price of Legal Institutions: The Beratlı Merchants in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Empire, Journal of Economic History 75, no. 3 (2015): 720-748 [Main Text]

Working Papers

The Power of Connections: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Corporate Performance in Egypt, 1890–1950 (with Mohamed Saleh), CEPR DP17424, July 2022

Legal Pluralism, Contracts, and Trade in the Ottoman Empire (September 2019)
Mentions: Marginal Revolution