Nach den aktuellen Prognosen der Experten für die in der Euroconstruct-Gruppe zusammengeschlossenen 19 europäischen Länder wird im Nichtwohnbau bis 2009 ein durchschnittliches Wachstum von rund 2% pro Jahr erwartet. Dabei wird, neben Belgien und Irland, in allen vier mittelosteuropäischen...

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) is a very powerful court compared to other international courts and even national courts of last resort. Observers almost unanimously agree that it is the preliminary references procedure that made the ECJ the powerful court it is today. In this paper, we...

In this article, we study the choice of issuer location and regulatory competition in the European corporate debt market. We find that, in absolute terms, Germany has by far the highest outflow of debt issues, while the Netherlands, the UK, Luxembourg and Ireland see the most inflows (in that...

The introduction of the Euro ushered in a rise to dominance of English contract law in European debt securities. Corporate issuers in the Euro zone chose English law significantly more often than a control group of other European countries. The Euro effect on choice of law is particularly strong...

This article analyzes how the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has affected the privacy practices of FinTech firms. We study the content of 308 privacy statements respectively before and after the GDPR became binding. Using textual analysis methods, we find that the readability of the...

Covenants are a type of contractual protection for creditors in debt financing. They are used in bond contracts to control the issuer's management activity and to attenuate conflicting goals existing between shareholders and bondholders. The article provides an overview of covenants and the way...