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Migration to Australia, the transition from sail to steam, and the SS Great Britain
Abstract The transition from sail to steam for emigrant ships on the route to Australia took place in the early 1880s. From the 1850s, a string of steamship ventures failed, but with one outstanding exception. Brunel's iconic ship the SS Great Britain made 32 voyages to Australia from 1852 to 1875 with a total of nearly 16,000 passengers. Among the key
Timothy J. Hatton
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The Use of Data in Assessing and Designing Insolvency Systems
To date, the use of empirical data in insolvency law analysis has been sporadic. This paper provides a conceptual framework for the use of data to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of insolvency systems.
José Garrido+6 more
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This study is motivated by the importance of accurately predicting insolvency before it happens. The paper aims to develop an insolvency prediction model for Colombian firms with one, two and three years of anticipation through financial ratios, keeping ...
Diego Andrés Correa-Mejía+1 more
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Understanding the Normalization of the Japanese Economy
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on three aspects of the Japanese economy that deviated from “normalcy”—unconventional monetary policy, unsustainable fiscal policy, and declining growth and productivity. Non‐normality in Japan has developed over the past few decades, but has become more prominent during the Abenomics years starting in 2013.
Takatoshi Ito
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Cooperation in cross-border insolvency: The case of protocols [PDF]
The paper deals with cross-border insolvency protocols as special source of insolvency law. Protocols are agreements between parties in insolvency procedure that deal with many significant questions in order to establish cooperation and coordination ...
Višekruna Aleksandra
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Problems of Ensuring the Effective Commencement of Insolvency Proceedings
This article examines the problems of the application of the Law on Insolvency of Enterprises of the Republic of Lithuania as related to the commencement of insolvency proceedings. The new insolvency law introduces a new procedure for the commencement of
Egidija Tamošiūnienė+3 more
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Insolvency regimes, zombie firms and capital reallocation
This paper explores cross-country differences in the design of insolvency regimes and their potential links with two inter-related sources of labour productivity weakness: the survival of “zombie” firms (firms that would typically exit in a competitive ...
Muge Adalet McGowan+2 more
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Insolvency Prediction in Insurance Companies Using Support Vector Machines and Fuzzy Kernel C-Means
Insolvency of insurance companies has been a concern of parties such as insurance regulators, investors, management, financial analysts, banks, auditors, policy holders, and consumers.
Zuherman Rustam, F. Yaurita
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Settler Midwifery: A Colonial Tool in Canada's Reproductive Healthcare System
ABSTRACT Introduction The land we call Canada is a settler colonial country where reproductive healthcare is used as a mechanism to control, subjugate, and erase Indigenous people and to advance the White settler state. Healthcare providers play an integral role in the healthcare system and contribute to Canada's colonization.
Melanie Murdock, Sarah Durant
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In the first part of this article author discusses the principles and models applicable to cross-border insolvency cases and problems of their direct application.
A. N. Khizunova
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