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Evaluating The 2013 Euro Cac Experiment, Elena Carletti, Paolo Colla, Mitu Gulati Jan 2015

Evaluating The 2013 Euro Cac Experiment, Elena Carletti, Paolo Colla, Mitu Gulati

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On January 1, 2013, it became mandatory that every new sovereign bond issued by a member of the European Monetary Union include a new contract clause called a Collective Action Clause or CAC. This, we believe, constituted the biggest one-time change to the terms of sovereign debt contracts in history, impacting a market of many trillions of euros. And it was not just that the change was big in terms of the size of the market it impacted; it was big in terms of its impact on the documentation of each individual Euro area sovereign bond contract. To illustrate, prior …