Corporate and consumer bankruptcy are defined by two principal features: a compulsory process and an identifiable set … of priorities to debtor property. These “rule of law” features reduce borrowing costs ex ante by, among other things …, discouraging rent-seeking ex post. Municipal bankruptcy, by contrast, despite apparent similarities, embodies a radically different …

Convention on Human Rights and the applicable community legislation. It considers different options for resolution within this …

Convention on Human Rights and the applicable community legislation. It considers different options for resolution within this …

Addresses issues and questions in an evaluative review of the insolvency of office developer Olympia and York at Canary … in the relationships between economics, finance and law in a new wave of insolvency proceedings under post‐1980 … legislation? In terms of property market conditions, how can Paul Reichmann’s consortium’s repurchase of Canary Wharf be explained?  …

This paper studies the legislation on bankruptcy introduced into Brazil by D.João VI (1808-1821) and shows how this …-assessing the economic policies enforced in this period. In fact the study of the bankruptcy legislation suggests that one of the … legislation was used in this period as an instrument of protection for certain specific economic activities. On one hand, this …

In this paper it is argued that the slowness of the legislativesystem implies pre-commitment of legislation for at …

look at Norway from our earliest legislation: Did we experience collective action problems involving social dilemmas like … problems could be resolved through legislation. …