Brown, James R.; Cookson, J. Anthony; Heimer, Rawley Z. - Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland - 2014
-experimental variation in legal contract enforcement wherein the US Congress externally assigned state courts to adjudicate contracts on a … subset of reservations. According to area-specific data on small business credit, reservations assigned to state courts …, which enforce contracts more predictably than tribal courts, have stronger credit markets. Moreover, the law …