insolvency and employment law, stakeholder interests are better represented, thanks to European Community influence. Moreover …

ownership and control that exist in developed economies. Yet the role of bankruptcy as a mechanism of corporate governance has … between bankruptcy law and ownership structure, which it is argued can explain developments in both the UK and the US. By … implications of these capital structure choices for bankruptcy, the paper develops a richer account of the corporate governance …

insolvency proceedings. It appears that regulatory pressure applied by the Bank of England may have been critical in 'seeding …

Law and economics scholarship has contributed greatly to our understanding of corporate insolvency law. This paper … goals of insolvency law. It then considers Jackson's well-known claim that insolvency law exists as a response to a common …

English corporate insolvency law has been reshaped by the Enterprise Act 2002. The Act was intended to ‘to facilitate … insolvency proceedings in the hands of banks, is for most purposes being abolished. It is being replaced by a ‘streamlined …

troubled companies. Consideration of this issue is timely, because insolvency law is currently under review. We argue although … creditor who has invested in information-gathering about the debtor to conduct a private insolvency procedure. We suggest that …

rights in bankruptcy. Proponents point to the monitoring benefits brought from concentrating control rights in the hands of a … bankruptcy law permitted firms to give complete ex post control to secured creditors, through a procedure known as Receivership … in the law, these have tended to be eaten up by concomitantly increased bankruptcy costs. The net result has been that …