The economics of the EU’s corporate-insolvency law and the quest for harmonisation by market forces
In 2002, a new legislation that harmonises insolvency laws within the EU came into effect. I find reasons – both theoretical and empirical – to doubt whether the new law has achieved the goal of decreasing the cost of cross-border insolvency and borrowing. I thus suggest an alternative approach to the problem, which is based – to a larger extent – on market forces rather than on political or bureaucratic initiative.
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2005
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Authors: | Sussman, Oren |
Institutions: | Finance Research Centre, Oxford University |
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