Author(s): J.J. Choi, G. Loewenstein, J. Friedman, B. McGill, S. Ahmad, S. Linck, S. Sinkula, J. Beshears, J. Kolstad, D. Laibson, B. Madrian, J. List, and K. Volpp
Suggested Citation: Valerie Hansen and Jean W. Rosenthal, “Contracts on the Silk Road,” Yale SOM Case 13-019, August 7, 2013
Abstract
During the Tang dynasty (618-907), people from multiple countries encountered each other in the different oases along the Silk Road. Even though they did not speak the same language, and their homelands had different legal traditions, they sometimes did business together and recorded the terms of their agreements. As a result, surviving contracts shed considerable light on international finance in this early period.