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The costs and benefits of secured creditor control in bankruptcy: Evidence from the UK [PDF]
Recent theoretical literature has debated the desirability of permitting debtors to contract with lenders over control rights in bankruptcy. Proponents point to the monitoring benefits brought from concentrating control rights in the hands of a single ...
Audrey Hsu, John Armour, Adrian Walters
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Misconduct complaints and agents’ incentives: Evidence from housing transactions
Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This article investigates the impact of misconduct complaints against agents on their self‐interested incentives and examines how agents attempt to shield themselves from the associated adverse effects on their reputations and career prospects.
Lawrence Kryzanowski, Yanting Wu
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Can Bankruptcy Codes Create Value? Evidence from Creditors’ Recoveries in France, Germany, and the UK [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to provide new evidence on the value-creation process taking place in bankruptcy procedures that belong to different legal systems (French civil law, German civil law, and common law): to do so, we assess to which extent the ...
Joël Petey, Régis Blazy, Laurent Weill
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Sustainable HRM in the Public Sector: A Question of Viability or Legitimacy?
Human Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent research has underlined the growing importance of sustainability in HRM policy and practice, taking into account long‐term multi‐stakeholder goals. However, few studies have specified the drivers and outcomes of sustainable HRM practices, nor the contradictions that arise when managers attempt to satisfy the demands of both internal and
Mathew Johnson +3 more
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The challenges of bankruptcy reform [PDF]
The 2008 financial crisis was followed by a global economic downturn, credit crunch, and reduction in cross-border lending, trade finance, remittances, and foreign direct investment, which adversely affected businesses around the world.
Klapper, Leora +2 more
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Pseudonyms, Propaganda, and Prints: The Life and Political Caricatures of William Dent, 1782–931
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract ‘Dent was probably an amateur and nothing is known of his life’, state Bryant and Heneage. Despite contributing to caricature's ‘golden age’, William Dent remains overlooked compared to contemporaries like James Gillray. Dent's extensive portfolio (1782–93) and rumoured role as a Pittite propagandist have not secured his place in the canon of ...
Callum D. Smith
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Financial versus Social Efficiency of Corporate Bankruptcy Law: the French Dilemma? [PDF]
We study the French dilemma associated with court administered resolution of corporate financial distress of firms, in which bankruptcy courts have to combine both social efficiency (maintaining employment) and ex post financial efficiency (determining ...
Agnès Fimayer +3 more
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Introduction to the Research Handbook on Corporate Bankruptcy Law [PDF]
, 2020 Barry E. Adler
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Does Continuous Disclosure Improve Investment Efficiency? Evidence from a Unique Regulatory Setting
Abacus, EarlyView.We examine the association between continuous disclosure and investment efficiency within the context of Australia's unique regulatory setting for continuous disclosure. Based on 8,527 firm‐year observations, we find that continuous disclosure is positively associated with investment efficiency and helps to mitigate both over‐investment and under ...
Sudipta Bose +3 more
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Journal on European History of LawThe bankruptcy proceedings codified in the Bavarian Code of Civil Procedure immediately before the founding of the German Empire after long scientific and political discussion (Gant) competed as the most up-to-date regulation of the bankruptcy ...
Martin Löhnig
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