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There is already some degree of policy convergence between countries in the area of competition policy and corporate … bankruptcy policy, practive is more varied and there is less consensus ion what needs to be done. The next three setions provide …
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In this article we provide a rationale for bankruptcy law that is based on the conflicts among creditors that occur … when a debtor's iabilities exceed its assets. In the absence of a bankruptcy law, the private debt-collection remedies that …
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In this study, we focus on firms that are listed on foreign exchanges from six countries: France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, The Netherlands and U.K. to provide some insights into the following questions: (1) what are the major perceived costs and benefits of foreign listing? (2) What are the...
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Globalization has precipitated movement of output and employment between regions. How similar are companies in different regions following this dramatic shift in economic activity? Corporate comparisons to test global convergence could be made along numerous dimensions. We look at firms along...
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The pedestrian narrative about the Greek financial crisis and default is that the country was fiscally mismanaged for a long time and failed to carry out needed structural reforms that could have improved economic growth prospects and enhanced the country's creditworthiness. Therefore, a default...
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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 clear process in recent years in some countries. Personal bankruptcy laws …
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This paper looks at the interrelationship between trade in goods and asset holdings, as brought forward by some contributions to the empirical literature in international economics. These contributions argue that single-equation gravity models suffer from an endogeneity bias, culminating in a...
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Does distance matter for the volatility of international real and financial transactions? We show that it does, in addition to its well-established relevance for the level of trade. A simple model of trade with endogenous markups shows that demand shocks have a larger impact on trade between...
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What precisely were the causes and consequences of the trade wars in the 1930s? Were there perhaps deeper forces at work in reorienting global trade prior to the outbreak of World War II? And what lessons may this particular historical episode provide for the present day? To answer these...
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Does distance matter for the volatility of international real and financial transactions? We show that it does, in addition to its well-established relevance for the level of trade. A simple model of trade with endogenous markups shows that demand shocks have a larger impact on trade between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011988553