This paper examines the role of geography and culture in explaining bankruptcy. We adopt survival analyses to model the … confirmed. -- bankruptcy ; geography ; culture ; exit …

systematically larger along the pre-Islamic trade routes in the Old World. The theory argues that this particular type of geography …, capital accumulation remained low and wealth inequality bounded. Geography and trade shaped the set of economically relevant … religious principles of Islam affecting its economic trajectory in the preindustrial world. -- Religion ; Islam ; Geography …