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The first bear raid and squeeze: Isaac Le Maire and the Dutch East India Company
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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Insolvency practitioners’ duties: Macks v Viscariello
The duties of insolvency practitioners have been a hot-button issue in recent times, with several cases brought by creditors against administrators and liquida- tors, seeking to challenge the conduct of the insolvency proceedings.
Harris, J
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Free to choose: Bank capital in Britain, 1878–1939
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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The commentary concerns the judgment of the Court of Justice of 27 March 2025 in Case C-186/24, Matthäus Metzler v Auto1 European Cars B.V. The CJEU held that Article 31(1) of Regulation 2015/848 also covers obligations arising from legal acts performed ...
Robert Obrzud
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Government support, regional well‐being, and the pivots of UK SMEs during a crisis
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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Insolvency Proceedings and Court Payment Orders – Legal Problems
This paper deals with the treatment of court payment orders in connection with domestic insolvency proceedings. At the outset the paper presents some general legal problems connected with the legal definition of the term “trader” or “merchant” in ...
Dimitar Gelev
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Article Oh Captain(s)! My Captain(s)
In this article, the author examines to what extent the European Insolvency Regulation (recast) authorizes Member States' courts to cooperate cross-border through appointing the same insolvency practitioner in insolvency proceedings relating to group ...
Sid Pepels
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The Liquidity Sprint: Short‐Term Cash Needs and Access to Credit
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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Assets in insolvency proceedings [PDF]
The subject of this thesis is the institute of assets, one of the fundamental legal institutes of insolvency proceedings, which plays an absolutely crucial role in the process of solving the debtor's bankruptcy and the satisfaction of the debtor's ...
Marian, Daniel
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Can Coercive Vertical Consolidation Improve the Financial Condition of Local Authorities?
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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