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Preventing financial ruin: How the West India trade fostered creativity in crisis lending by the Bank of England

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper contributes to the understanding of the complex relationship between British economic performance during the Napoleonic wars and the ‘West Indies’, as the Caribbean slave colonies were called. Not only did profits from slave‐based commerce provide financing for the growth of the financial sector, as has been claimed, but the risk of
Carolyn Sissoko, Mina Ishizu
wiley   +1 more source

Reforming The Governance Of Corporate Rescue: The Enterprise Act 2002 [PDF]

open access: yes
English corporate insolvency law has been reshaped by the Enterprise Act 2002. The Act was intended to ‘to facilitate company rescue and to produce better returns for creditors as a whole’.
John Armour, Rizwaan Jameel Mokal
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Directors' disqualification after the Insolvency Act 2000: the new regime [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Scope of amendments to 1986 Act allowing Secretary of State to accept disqualification undertakings from directors instead of resorting to disqualification orders and practical implications of new procedures, including cost ...
Walters, A
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Goodbye connections, hello Bagehot: democratization, lender of last resort independence and bank failures in Spain in 1931

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Did democratization reduce the likelihood of politically connected bank bailouts in the past? What role did private central banks play as independent lenders of last resort? To answer these questions, this article provides new detailed archival evidence on the causes of bank failures in Spain in July 1931.
Enrique Jorge‐Sotelo
wiley   +1 more source

The role of information and communication technologies in managing the insolvency process [PDF]

open access: yesEkonomija: teorija i praksa, 2019
The aim of the paper is to present the results of the research carried out on the territory of AP Vojvodina with the goal of determining the extent to which information communication technologies are used in the management of the insolvency process.
Vladisavljević Radovan   +2 more
doaj  

INSOLVENCY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PRESENT FINANCIAL CRISES – A COMPARATIVE ANALYSES [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper presents the current trends in the view of various national states and their on the application of collective insolvency proceedings, also called bankruptcy procedure in common language, by analysing their main pieces of legal regulation ...
Luminiţa Tuleaşcă
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An Introduction to Corporate Insolvency Law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
English law provides three forms of insolvency proceeding for companies: liquidation, administration and company voluntary arrangements. This paper begins by examining the nature and purpose of insolvency law, the concepts of insolvency and insolvency ...
Anderson, Hamish
core   +1 more source

The cost of the consumer revolution: Prices, material living standards, and real inequality in Amsterdam (1630‒1805)

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article measures the cost of the early modern consumer revolution through a quantitative analysis of product and process innovations in Amsterdam and examines their variegated social impact in two distinct datasets of probate inventories.
Bas Spliet, Anne E. C. McCants
wiley   +1 more source

Crossborder jurisdiction and assistance in insolvency: The position in Malaysia and Singapore [PDF]

open access: yesPotchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2008
Malaysia and Singapore are members of the common law family and have 'inherited' their company and insolvency law from models in use in the United Kingdom with influences from Australia. It is the purpose of this article to outline the law in relation to
PJ Omar
doaj  

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