Enforcing contracts: Should courts seek the truth?

Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 49-64

  Fluet, Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

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EID: 0037361628     PISSN: 09324569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1628/0932456032975087     Document Type: Conference Paper

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