Fiduciary-based standards for bailout contractors: What the treasury got right and wrong in TARP

Minnesota Law Review

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1614-1636

  Clark, Kathleen ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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