Personal Bankruptcy Law, Fresh Starts, and Judicial Practice [PDF]
We explore the ways French judges respond to the possibility of discharging personal debts in exchange for liquidation of debtors’ assets. We present empirical results on the determinants of judicial selection between debtors whose debts are wiped out ...
Eric Langlais +3 more
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Faith, gender and financial investment: Providence and Presbyterianism in Scotland and abroad
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Mid‐nineteenth century fictional representations of misdirected investment by widows and clergy position them as ignorant in financial matters and hence pitiable. While scholars have recognised female agency in nineteenth century commerce, insufficient attention has been paid to religious belief in financial decision‐making.
Jennifer Jones, Susan Poole
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Assessment of formal proceedings and out-of-court reorganisation: results from a survey among turnaround professionals in Austria. [PDF]
Eur J Law Econ, 2023 Mayr S, Duller C, Baschinger M.
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Bankruptcy Reorganization of Listed Companies with Chinese Characteristics
, 2016 The bankruptcy reorganization of listed companies in China matters a lot to the local governments and local economy. Although the Enterprise Bankruptcy Law (the “EBL”) of the People’s Republic of China (“PRC”) does not grant many rights to the government
Zhao, H
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Credit Market Frictions and Bankruptcy Law Design—Implications for Korea*
Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Bankruptcy law design has important implications for financial markets and economic growth. As bankruptcy law design interacts with local economic and political conditions, it is important to consider these factors when designing optimal bankruptcy law.
David Schoenherr
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Basic notions and terms of Croatian bankruptcy law
Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2009 Bankruptcy is an interdisciplinary area where primarily economists and law experts meet, or put more widely, where systems of thoughts and expressions of economists and lawyers blend.
Domagoj Sajter, Lana Hudeček
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Company scaling and its deviations: New indicators for enterprise evaluation and bankruptcy prediction. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Xu J, Chen X, Wen L, Zhang J.
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Does the law alone explain the rise in bankruptcies in XIXth century France? [PDF]
This paper is the first result of a project aiming at understanding the history of bankruptcy law from an empirical economic perspective. By contrast with some proponents of "law and economics" (e.g. La Porta & alii, 1998), we consider that the impact of
Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur +1 more
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Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.Abstract In conventional firms (CFs), workers are unlikely to accept pay and hour reductions in order to secure their jobs, in particular because of information asymmetry. A specific type of firm is not subject to this information asymmetry problem because workers make decisions and share profits: worker cooperatives.
Nathalie Magne, Virginie Pérotin
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Death or survival. Post-communist bankruptcy law in action. A survey [PDF]
The paper discusses some major lessons to be learnt from the application of bankruptcy law in a post-communist environment. Its focus is on East Central Europe because elsewhere bankruptcy law is of rather limited practical relevance.
Schönfelder, Bruno
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