What do notaries do? Overcoming asymmetric information in financial markets: The case of Paris, 1751

Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics

Volumn 154, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 499-530

  Hoffman, Philip T ^a   Postel Vinay, Gilles ^b   Rosenthal, Jean Laurent ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ÉCOLE DES HAUTES ÉTUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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