Inflation and the enforcement of contracts /
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| Author / Creator: | Renner, Shirliy. |
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| Imprint: | Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : Edward Elgar, c1999. |
| Description: | x, 139 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New horizons in law and economics |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4062969 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. The experience of different legal systems with the enforcement of contracts during inflation
- Introduction
- Germany
- Scope of German inflation
- The attitude of the judiciary
- The attitude of the legislature
- France
- The attitude of the judiciary
- The attitude of the legislature
- Argentina, Brazil and Chile
- The attitude of the judiciary
- The attitude of the legislature
- United States
- The attitude taken by the legal system
- Israel
- The attitude taken by the legal system
- Conclusions
- 2. Economic analysis
- Introduction
- The risk of inflation
- Risk allocation of an unassigned inflationary risk
- General terms for allocating an unassigned inflationary risk
- Excuse v. adjustment v. enforcement
- Application of the analysis
- The experience in different countries
- Conclusions
- 3. The distributional approach to contract law
- Introduction
- The distributive effects of inflation at the micro-level
- The distributive effects of inflation at the macro-level
- Analytical framework
- Public nominal institutions
- Private nominal institutions
- @income distribution
- @assets
- @creditor-debtor relationship
- Overall picture
- Implications
- 4. A comparison of economic analysis of contract law and the distributional approach to contract law
- 5. The institutional competence of judicial and legislative bodies to deal with enforcement during inflation
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
