Anna Gelpern

Georgetown University Law Center

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1.

Rewriting Frankenstein Contracts: The Workout Prohibition in Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities

Southern California Law Review, Vol. 82, pp. 1077-1152, 2009, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 1323546, CLEA 2009 Annual Meeting Paper, Rutgers School of Law-Newark Research Papers No. 33
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 06 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 04 Dec 2009
Anna Gelpern and Adam J. Levitin
Georgetown University Law Center and Georgetown University Law Center
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securitization, mortgages, foreclosure, servicing, PSA, pooling and servicing agreement, gold clauses, New Deal, public utility holding company act, Frazier-Lemke Act, contract, collective action, workout, modification, externalities, MBS, RMBS, CMBS, bankruptcy

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Financial Crisis Containment

Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 41, No. 4, May 2009, Rutgers School of Law-Newark Research Papers No. 047
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 08 May 2009
Anna Gelpern
Georgetown University Law Center
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Financial crisis, systemic crisis, systemic risk, economic emergency, financial regulation, crisis containment, macroprudential regulation, financial regulation, IMF, central bank, Japan, Indonesia, Argentina, Great Depression, Gold Clause, bankruptcy

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Public Symbol in Private Contract: A Case Study

Washington University Law Quarterly, 2007 , Duke Law School Legal Studies Paper No. 128, Rutgers School of Law-Newark Research Paper No. 020
Number of pages: 91 Posted: 26 Sep 2006
Anna Gelpern and G. Mitu Gulati
Georgetown University Law Center and Duke University School of Law
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Contract, boilerplate, sovereign debt, development, emerging markets, financial crisis, IMF, sovereign bankruptcy, collective action clause

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Peer-to-Peer Financing for Development: Regulating the Intermediaries

N.Y.U. Journal of Int'l Law & Polotics, Vol. 42, p. 1209, 2010, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 10-22, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2010-15
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 02 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 01 Oct 2010
Kevin E. Davis and Anna Gelpern
New York University School of Law and Georgetown University Law Center
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Domestic and External Debt: The Doomed Quest for Equal Treatment

Georgetown Journal of International Law, Vol. 35, p. 795, 2004, Rutgers School of Law-Newark Research Papers No. 019
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 22 Feb 2006
Anna Gelpern and Brad Setser
Georgetown University Law Center and Roubini Global Economics, LLC
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sovereign debt, emerging markets, argentina, turkey, russia, financial crisis

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After Argentina

Rutgers School of Law-Newark Research Paper No. 011, Institute for International Economics Working Paper No. 2005-PB05-2
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 03 Feb 2006
Anna Gelpern
Georgetown University Law Center
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sovereign debt, international finance, emerging markets, international law, international institutions, IMF, Argentina, Latin America

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Bankruptcy, Backwards: The Problem of Quasi-Sovereign Debt

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 121, p. 888, 2012, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2012-06
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 24 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 04 Feb 2012
Anna Gelpern
Georgetown University Law Center
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Bankruptcy, sovereign debt, fiscal federalism, state bankruptcy, municipal debt

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Inside Safe Assets

Yale Journal on Regulation, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 28 Sep 2016
Anna Gelpern and Erik F. Gerding
Georgetown University Law Center and University of Colorado Law School
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Financial stability, safe assets, macroprudential regulation, legal fiction, financial crisis, bankruptcy, debt

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Domestic Bonds, Credit Derivatives, and the Next Transformation of Sovereign Debt

Chicago-Kent Law Review, Vol. 83, 2008, Rutgers School of Law-Newark Research Papers No. 038
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 27 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2009
Anna Gelpern
Georgetown University Law Center
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emerging markets, sovereign debt, credit derivatives, domestic debt, development, financial integration, securities regulation, financial crisis

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Argentina's Pathway Through Financial Crisis

Rutgers School of Law-Newark Research Papers No. 016, GEG Working Paper No. 2004/02
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 15 Feb 2006
Brad Setser and Anna Gelpern
Roubini Global Economics, LLC and Georgetown University Law Center
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Injunctions in Sovereign Debt Litigation

Yale Journal on Regulation, 2014, Forthcoming, UNC Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2330914
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 27 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2013
Mark C. Weidemaier and Anna Gelpern
University of North Carolina School of Law and Georgetown University Law Center
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sovereign debt, sovereign immunity, injunctions, Argentina

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Contract Hope and Sovereign Redemption

The Capital Markets Law Journal, Forthcoming, American University, WCL Research Paper 2013-04
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 19 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2013
Anna Gelpern
Georgetown University Law Center
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sovereign debt, bankruptcy, contract interpretation, pari passu, Argentina

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A Sovereign Wealth Turn

Rutgers School of Law-Newark Research Papers No. 025
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 23 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 21 Oct 2008
Anna Gelpern
Georgetown University Law Center
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Sovereign wealth funds, IMF, international finance, financial architecture

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Sovereignty, Accountability, and the Wealth Fund Governance Conundrum

Asian Journal of International Law, Forthcoming, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2010-21
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 12 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2010
Anna Gelpern
Georgetown University Law Center
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Sovereign wealth, international finance, International Monetary Fund, global legal pluralism, soft law, new governance, financial globalization

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CDS Zombies

European Business Organization Law Review 13, Forthcoming, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2012-37
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 03 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 25 Dec 2014
Anna Gelpern and G. Mitu Gulati
Georgetown University Law Center and Duke University School of Law
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CDS, derivatives, sovereign debt, Greece, Europe, financial crisis, ISDA

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A Skeptic's Case for Sovereign Bankruptcy

Houston Law Review, Vol. 50, pp. 1095-1127, 2013 Forthcoming , American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2013-02
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 09 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2013
Anna Gelpern
Georgetown University Law Center
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sovereign debt, debt restructuring, sovereign bankruptcy, SDRM

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Innovation after the Revolution: Foreign Sovereign Bond Contracts Since 2003

Capital Markets Law Journal, Vol. 4, 2009, Rutgers School of Law-Newark Research Papers No. 024, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Paper No. 252
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 23 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2009
Anna Gelpern and G. Mitu Gulati
Georgetown University Law Center and Duke University School of Law
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Sovereign debt, collective action clause, sovereign bankruptcy, IMF, innovation, standardization, boilerplate

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The Puzzle of PDVSA Bond Prices

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 04 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2016
Paolo Colla, Anna Gelpern and G. Mitu Gulati
Bocconi University - Department of Finance, Georgetown University Law Center and Duke University School of Law
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Venezuela, pricing, sovereign debt, contracts

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Wal-Mart Bank in Mexico: Money to the Masses and the Home-Host Hole

Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 39, May 2007, Rutgers School of Law-Newark Research Papers No. 018
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 02 May 2007
Anna Gelpern
Georgetown University Law Center
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Mexico, bank regulation, financial crisis, Basel Committee, Wal-Mart

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Revisiting Sovereign Bankruptcy

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Revisiting Sovereign Bankruptcy

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 17 Nov 2013
Lee C. Buchheit, Anna Gelpern, G. Mitu Gulati, Ugo Panizza, Beatrice Weder di Mauro and Jeromin Zettelmeyer
Center for Contract and Economic Organization, Georgetown University Law Center, Duke University School of Law, United Nations - Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Graduate Institute Geneva, IHEID and Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics
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Revisiting Sovereign Bankruptcy

Revisiting Sovereign Bankruptcy, Brookings Institution, October 2013
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 13 Nov 2013
Lee C. Buchheit, Anna Gelpern, G. Mitu Gulati, Ugo Panizza, Beatrice Weder di Mauro and Jeromin Zettelmeyer
Center for Contract and Economic Organization, Georgetown University Law Center, Duke University School of Law, United Nations - Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Graduate Institute Geneva, IHEID and Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics
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Sovereign debt, fiscal crises, default, bankruptcy, debt restructuring

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Sovereign Debt: Now What?

Yale Journal of International Law, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 11 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 21 Sep 2016
Anna Gelpern
Georgetown University Law Center
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Sovereign Debt, Sovereign Bonds, Bankruptcy, Contract Reform, IMF, UN, Financial Crisis, Argentina, Greece, Ukraine

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Hard, Soft, and Embedded: Implementing Principles on Promoting Responsible Sovereign Lending and Borrowing

Oxford University Press, Forthcoming, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2012-44
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 17 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 03 Oct 2016
Anna Gelpern
Georgetown University Law Center
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sovereign debt, soft law, new governance, international finance, international financial regulation

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Feel-Good Formalism

Queen's Law Journal, Forthcoming, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2009-27
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 17 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 25 Dec 2014
Anna Gelpern and G. Mitu Gulati
Georgetown University Law Center and Duke University School of Law
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Business contracts, sovereign debt, formalism

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Odious, Not Debt

Law & Contemporary Problems, Vol. 71, Summer 2007, Rutgers School of Law-Newark Research Papers No. 019
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 02 May 2007
Anna Gelpern
Georgetown University Law Center
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odious debt, sovereign debt, foreign aid, debt relief, development, conditionality, Paris Club

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Sovereign Snake Oil

Law and Contemporary Problems, Forthcoming, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2011- 05
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 06 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 25 Dec 2014
Anna Gelpern and G. Mitu Gulati
Georgetown University Law Center and Duke University School of Law
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Sovereign Debt, Financial Crisis, Collective Action Clauses, Europe

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What Iraq and Argentina Might Learn from Each Other

Chicago Journal of International Law, Vol. 6, p. 391, Summer 2005, Rutgers School of Law-Newark Research Paper No. 013
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 15 Feb 2006
Anna Gelpern
Georgetown University Law Center
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If Boilerplate Could Talk

Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2017-45
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 13 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2020
Anna Gelpern, G. Mitu Gulati and Jeromin Zettelmeyer
Georgetown University Law Center, Duke University School of Law and Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics
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Contracts, Stickiness, Sovereign Debt, Sovereign Default

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Building a Better Seating Chart for Sovereign Restructurings

Emory Law Journal, Vol. 53, 2004
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 17 May 2006
Anna Gelpern
Georgetown University Law Center
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sovereign debt, emerging markets, sovereign bankruptcy, international law, IMF, Latin America, Argentina

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Russia's Contract Arbitrage

Capital Markets Law Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 30 Jan 2015
Anna Gelpern
Georgetown University Law Center
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sovereign debt, IMF, Ukraine, Russia, sanctions, odious debt, international financial architecture, financial crisis

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Consumer Protection, Legal Services, and Financial Stability: An Exchange

Fordham Urban Law Journal, Vol. 38, 2011, UNC Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1829686, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2011-13
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 16 May 2011
Melissa B. Jacoby and Anna Gelpern
University of North Carolina School of Law and Georgetown University Law Center
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bankruptcy, financial stability, systemic risk, consumer protection, foreclosure

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Yale Journal of International Law - Special Online Edition on Sovereign Debt

Yale Journal of International Law, Vol. 41, No. 2 - special online edition, 2016
Number of pages: 267 Posted: 10 Nov 2016
Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, Matthias Goldmann, Anna Gelpern, Odette Lienau, Daniel Bradlow, Michael Riegner and Jan Klabbers
United Nations Human Rights Council, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Cornell University - Law School, University of Pretoria - Centre for Human Rights, Humboldt University of Berlin and University of Helsinki - Faculty of Law
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sovereign debt, sovereign bankruptcy, international law, debt sustainability, human rights, business and human rights, indicators, legitimacy, global governance, debt crisis, financial crisis

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Beyond Balancing the Interests of Creditors and Developing States

Rutgers School of Law-Newark Research Papers No. 018, ASIL Proceedings, 2003
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 22 Feb 2006
Anna Gelpern
Georgetown University Law Center
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sovereign debt, international finance, emerging markets, domestic and external debt, development

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Considering Law and Macroeconomics

Law and Contemporary Problems, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 06 Apr 2020
Anna Gelpern and Adam J. Levitin
Georgetown University Law Center and Georgetown University Law Center
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macroeconomics, political economy, financial stability, financial crisis, regulation, countercyclical regulation

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Count the Limbs: Designing Robust Aggregation Clauses in Sovereign Bonds

Too Little, Too Late: The Quest to Resolve Sovereign Debt Crises (Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia 2016)
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 05 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 11 Aug 2016
Anna Gelpern, Ben Heller and Brad Setser
Georgetown University Law Center, Hutchin Hill Capital and Roubini Global Economics, LLC
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Sovereign debt restructuring, sovereign bankruptcy, sovereign bonds, creditor collective action, CACs, IMF, G20, Argentina, Greece, debt crisis, contract modification, contract design, contract drafting, international financial architecture, financial crisis

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The Strained Marriage of Public Debts and Private Contracts

Current History, Vol. 117, Pp. 22-28 (2018)
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 27 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2018
Anna Gelpern
Georgetown University Law Center
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When Governments Write Contracts: Policy and Expertise in Sovereign Debt Markets

Contractual Knowledge: One Hundred Years of Experimentation in Global Markets (Cambridge Univ. Press), Forthcoming, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2015-51
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 03 Nov 2015
Mark C. Weidemaier, G. Mitu Gulati and Anna Gelpern
University of North Carolina School of Law, Duke University School of Law and Georgetown University Law Center
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Public Promises and Organizational Agendas

Arizona Law Review, Forthcoming, Rutgers School of Law-Newark Research Papers No. 034
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 26 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 18 Mar 2009
Anna Gelpern
Georgetown University Law Center
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contracts, organizational theories, derivatives, financial markets, ISDA

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The Importance of Being Standard

European Central Bank 2016 Annual Legal Department Conference Proceedings ISBN 978-92-899-2640-9 (January 2017)
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 06 May 2017
Anna Gelpern
Georgetown University Law Center
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sovereign debt, boilerplate, contract standardization, private ordering, derivatives, modular contracts, collective action clause, pari passu, IMF, ISDA, ICMA

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The Wonder-Clause

Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 41, pp. 367-385, 2013
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 30 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 04 Jul 2016
Anna Gelpern and G. Mitu Gulati
Georgetown University Law Center and Duke University School of Law
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legal theory of finance, Eurozone, sovereign debt, collective action clauses

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Courts and Sovereigns in the Pari Passu Goldmines

Capital Markets Law Journal (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 05 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 11 Aug 2016
Anna Gelpern
Georgetown University Law Center
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Sovereign debt, debt contracts, debt restructuring, sovereign bonds, pari passu clause, bond trustee, Argentina, Germany, Young Loan, BIS, financial crisis, trust

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Rethinking the Law in 'Safe Assets'

Reconceptualising Global Finance and Its Regulation (Ross P. Buckley, ‎Emilios Avgouleas, and ‎Douglas W. Arner eds. (2016), ISBN-13: 9781107100930
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 28 Dec 2016
Anna Gelpern and Erik F. Gerding
Georgetown University Law Center and University of Colorado Law School
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safe assets, securitization, government debt, bank debt, repo, financial markets, bank regulation, financial regulation

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Common Capital: A Thought Experiment in Cross-Border Resolution

Texas International Law Journal, Vol. 49, pp. 355-383, 2014
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 04 Mar 2015
Anna Gelpern
Georgetown University Law Center
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bank failure, common capital, cross-border banking, bailout, government commitments

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Banks and Governments: An Arial View

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 19 Oct 2013
Anna Gelpern
Georgetown University Law Center
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banking, sovereign debt, financial crisis, Eurozone

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Cinderella Sovereignty

Duke Law Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 04 May 2017
Anna Gelpern
Georgetown University Law Center
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International law, secession, market for control, sovereign debt

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Private and Public Ordering in Safe Asset Markets

Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law Vol. 10 (2015)
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 27 Dec 2016
Anna Gelpern and Erik F. Gerding
Georgetown University Law Center and University of Colorado Law School
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safe assets, securitization, financial markets, bank regulation, securities regulation

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CACs and Doorknobs

Capital Markets Law Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 01 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 10 Nov 2019
Anna Gelpern and Jeromin Zettelmeyer
Georgetown University Law Center and Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics
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Sovereign Debt, Sovereign Bonds, Bankruptcy, Contract Reform, IMF, UN, Financial Crisis, Argentina, Greece

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About Government Debt ... Who Knows?

Capital Markets Law Journal, 2018
Posted: 16 Feb 2019
Anna Gelpern
Georgetown University Law Center

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Sovereign Damage Control

Peterson Institute for International Economics, pp.1-14, 2013-PB13
Posted: 29 Sep 2013
Anna Gelpern
Georgetown University Law Center

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debt legislation, debt, sovereign damage

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Banks, Governments and Debt Crises

Foreign Policy Association Great Decisions 2011
Posted: 08 Jan 2011
Anna Gelpern
Georgetown University Law Center

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financial crisis, bank resolution, sovereign debt