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The first bear raid and squeeze: Isaac Le Maire and the Dutch East India Company
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract In 1609, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) faced a bear raid by a syndicate of short sellers led by Isaac Le Maire, a former director. We reconstruct the forward trade between 1607 and 1611, the actions taken by the syndicate members, and the responses to these actions by the company.
Oscar Gelderblom +2 more
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Assessment of Enterprises Insolvency: Challenges and Opportunities
This article presents a review of existing tests of the assessment of enterprises insolvency. As for the users of non-financial market models, the authors apply the KISS principle (keep it simple, stupid) to research the development of risk index model ...
Didenko, Konstantins +2 more
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AI and the Insolvency Profession: The State of Play
, 2018 Artificial intelligence (AI) is defined as the ability of a digital computer or robot to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence such as logical deduction, learning or creativity.
Dickfos, Jennifer
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Free to choose: Bank capital in Britain, 1878–1939
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Government regulation of the banking sector is pervasive, making it difficult to empirically analyse when banks would voluntarily choose to issue equity if there were no minimum requirements on capital adequacy. A unique historical setting occurred in the late nineteenth‐century United Kingdom when joint‐stock banks were free to choose their ...
Gareth Campbell +2 more
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Government support, regional well‐being, and the pivots of UK SMEs during a crisis
European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract Pivoting—a substantive transformation of the established business model (e.g., reformulation of goods, services, processes, or organizational methods in a new or significantly improved manner)—has emerged as a crisis response strategy of small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs).
Chau M. Chu, Bach Nguyen
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Section 236 of the Insolvency Act and directors' disqualification [PDF]
, 2004 The question for the House of Lords in Re Pantmaenog Timber Co Ltd, Official Receiver v Wadge Rapps and Hunt was whether the powers conferred by s.236 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (“IA”) can lawfully be exercised solely or principally to obtain evidence ...
Walters, A
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The Liquidity Sprint: Short‐Term Cash Needs and Access to Credit
European Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We identify the causal drivers of the COVID‐19 ‘dash‐for‐cash’ in Europe using a hand‐collected panel of Euro‐area firms (2018‐Q4–2020‐Q3). Exploiting regional infection intensity as an instrument, we find that a one‐unit EBITDA decline raised credit‐line utilization by 15.5 percentage points in 2020‐Q2. Unlike the US ‘fallen‐angel’ narrative,
Mario Cerrato +2 more
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Can Coercive Vertical Consolidation Improve the Financial Condition of Local Authorities?
Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Vertical consolidation of small local authorities providing neighborhood services and large authorities providing strategic services into unitary authorities is assumed to improve financial condition by creating new economies of scale and scope.
Rhys Andrews, Dennis De Widt
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What further benefit, if any, might Australia get from the ALI-III Transnational Insolvency: Global Principles for Cooperation in International Insolvency Cases? [PDF]
, 2014 In 2006, the American Law Institute (ALI) and the International Insolvency Institute (III) established a Transnational Insolvency Project and appointed Professor Ian Fletcher (United Kingdom) and Professor Bob Wessels (Netherlands) as Joint Reporters ...
Jackson, Sheryl +2 more
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Geopolitical Risk and Domestic Bank Deposits
Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We investigate the relationship between global geopolitical risk and bank deposit flows across a wide panel of European countries. Motivated by the pivotal role of deposit stability for financial intermediation and systemic resilience, we explore whether geopolitical shocks alter depositors’ portfolio choices.
Dimitris Anastasiou +3 more
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