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Duke Law

2012

Government bonds

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The Dynamics Of Contract Evolution, Mitu Gulati, Stephen J. Choi, Eric A. Posner Jan 2012

The Dynamics Of Contract Evolution, Mitu Gulati, Stephen J. Choi, Eric A. Posner

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Contract scholarship has given little attention to the production process for contracts. The usual assumption is that the parties will construct the contract ex nihilo, choosing all the terms so that they will maximize the surplus from the contract. In fact, parties draft most contracts by slightly modifying the terms of contracts that they have used in the past, or that other parties have used in related transactions. A small literature on boilerplate recognizes this phenomenon, but little empirical work examines the process. This Article provides an empirical analysis by drawing on a data set of sovereign bonds. The authors …


Direct And Indirect U.S. Government Debt, Steven L. Schwarcz Jan 2012

Direct And Indirect U.S. Government Debt, Steven L. Schwarcz

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