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Insolvency proceedings and issues relating to personal and business insolvencies are the daily subject of scholarly … work and insolvency practice. But what is an insolvency proceeding? And why is this an important question? This article … normative, i.e. it seeks to shape insolvency policy and lawmaking. Existing approaches to the regulatory problem examined in …
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We conjecture that angel investment in entrepreneurial firms depends on two types of bankruptcy laws around the world. Corporate bankruptcy laws impact investor terms and incentives to finance risky entrepreneurs, particularly given reforms that brought about a time-efficient, simplified, and...
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For a long time, the European insolvency laws have been considered as country-specific regulations, entirely focused on … supranational legal sources. But the European Union (E.U.) law has gradually modified the approach to insolvency proceedings. The E ….U. approach to the harmonization of national laws on insolvency proceedings has been twofold. Initially, the E.U. legislature has …
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, and regulators around bank insolvency may corrupt banks' credit allocation and monitoring decisions, leading to suboptimal … regulatory insolvency using a large firm-level dataset and proposing a new indicator to measure the catharsis effect. Employing …
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This article analyzes bank bankruptcy regimes across 142 countries. By employing factor analysis, we identify five main dimensions of bank bankruptcy frameworks: (1) Difficulty of forbearance & ease of court appeal, (2) Availability of supervisory tools, (3) Court involvement, (4) Supervisory...
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to fail. Failure of a bank may trigger formal insolvency (resolution) proceedings, if there is no available option to … save it as a going concern. Bank insolvency proceedings comprise various mechanisms, instruments, and transactions to … enable resolution authorities to properly deal with a failed bank. Bank restructuring within insolvency proceedings means …
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This article analyzes bank bankruptcy regimes across 142 countries. By employing factor analysis, we identify five main dimensions of bank bankruptcy frameworks: (1) Difficulty of forbearance & ease of court appeal, (2) Availability of supervisory tools, (3) Court involvement, (4) Supervisory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053081
This essay, after highlighting the unique aspects of financial markets, offers a mostly rational account for financial crises, centering on the 2008 crisis as an example. Market participants may overestimate the duration of high productivity growth due to new technologies and produce occasional...
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As regards close-out netting provisions and financial collateral arrangements, one of the main consequences of the recent financial crisis has been the review of the privileged status of these instruments. This paper describes, in general terms, these changes and analyzes the policy underlying...
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The coronavirus pandemic is creating overwhelming needs, in three waves. First is the health crisis; second is the macroeconomic crisis created by the abrupt halt in much business activity; and now third is a consumer crisis, as households are faced with total or partial job loss, sharp income...
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