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Market Insurance and Risk Pooling in U.S. Crop Insurance

open access: yesAgricultural Economics, Volume 57, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT A common assumption is that multiple‐peril crop insurance markets suffer from market failures, thus justifying government intervention in the form of premium subsidies, operating allowances, and reinsurance agreements. One prominent rationale for intervention involves geographic correlation in agricultural production which leads to systemic ...
Fan Fan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Outline of Cross-Border Consumer Insolvency from the Perspective of the Current Legislation in Poland

open access: yesStudies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
Increasing globalization and the growth of cross-border consumer activity make the issue of international consumer insolvency increasingly important. This paper focuses on an analysis of the legislation currently in force in Poland that applies to this ...
Pannert Maciej
doaj   +1 more source

Recovering costs of litigation as a liquidation expense [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
The spate of cases dealing with the question of whether a liquidator can treat the costs of any litigation that she initiates or pursues in the exercise of her statutory functions as a liquidation expense payable in priority to other creditors shows no ...
Walters, A
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The “Pesticide Chip”: Chemical Legacies and Agrarian Futures in Costa Rica

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
Abstract For decades, agro‐industrial capital has adopted cascading chemical and biotechnical interventions, or fixes, to secure accumulation through the cultivation of monocrops. We develop a framework that centres on how monocrop‐induced susceptibility to pests and pathogens—and the patchwork of fixes to address these—produces uneven chemical ...
Soledad Castro‐Vargas, Marion Werner
wiley   +1 more source

Procedural issues on patrimony liability in matters of insolvency

open access: yesEIRP Proceedings, 2009
The Law of insolvency procedure expressly provided the acts for which it can be engaged themembers’ management responsibility of the debtor's liabilities, legal person, reached in insolvency state.However, it established the entitled and the term where ...
Alexandrina Zaharia
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Why and How Workers Choose Less Work for Less Money: A Mixed‐Methods Study on a Working Time Reduction Scheme in Germany

open access: yesIndustrial Relations Journal, Volume 57, Issue 2, Page 127-139, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines workers' motives for joining or rejecting a voluntary 28‐h work‐time reduction scheme in Germany. Using a mixed‐methods design that combines semi‐structured interviews and a survey of eligible employees, we analyse how personal, financial, and professional considerations shape decisions about shorter hours.
Thiago Guimarães   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Creditor Rights and Legal Transaction Costs

open access: yesJournal of Empirical Legal Studies, Volume 23, Issue 1, Page 4-23, March 2026.
ABSTRACT I estimate the relationship between increased creditor rights and legal expenditures of debtor corporations by evaluating a securitization law in India allowing secured creditors to seize collateral. The law reduced spending on legal proceedings used by firms to avoid foreclosure, because debt‐related litigation decreased.
Dhruv Chand Aggarwal
wiley   +1 more source

International Similarities of Bank Lending Practices and Varieties of Insolvency Laws: a Comparative Analysis of France and Germany [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Economic theory conjectures complementarities between the ranking of creditors in formal insolvency proceedings and the use of collateral in bank loan contracts as well as the existence of relational compared to arms length lending. In this paper we seek
Groessl, Ingrid, Levratto, Nadine
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