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transformation. The first is legislative: the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (CIGA) introduced a number of powerful new … system for debt restructuring and insolvency more generally; (iii) a blurring of the boundary between restructuring and … insolvency; and (iv) a more complex cross-border regime. In combination these amount to a seismic shift in the UK debt …
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We examine micro-level data on Slovenian court-supervised financial reorganizations in order to provide a rare empirical insight into the effectiveness of bankruptcy institutions at fulfilling their primary role: encouraging the liquidation of non-viable firms and promoting the restructuring of...
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We survey the empirical evidence on corporate survival and its determinants in European emerging markets. We demonstrate that (i) institutional quality is a significant preventive factor for firm survival in all sectors of the economy, which holds for small, medium and large firms alike. On the...
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This paper offers the first comprehensive analysis of legal change in the protection of shareholder and creditor rights in transition economies and its impact on the propensity of firms to raise external finance. Following La Porta et al. (1998), the paper constructs an expanded set of legal...
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Bulgaria and Latvia are on the other end. In the remaining countries, traditional approaches to predicting business insolvency …
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Since the late 1990s financial strategies for opening Eastern European markets and entry strategies of foreign banks in most CESEE countries included triggers for strong credit growth, especially in the private sector. What are the transition results on the macro level? Does this credit growth...
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This paper sheds light on the impact of bank concentration on the entrepreneurial initiative in the Central and Eastern European transition countries over the period 2000-2007. Our investigation provides evidence of a non-monotonic relationship: bank concentration promotes entrepreneurship;...
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This research compares the links between the economic growth and the development of banking credit for the private sector in three transition economies. The empirical results confirm the choice of a case-by-case analytical and time series econometrical approach. Each country has its own...
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We investigate the influence of residual state ownership on firm behaviors in providing and receiving trade credit by using a Vietnamese government's privatization experiment. Our robust results show that a substantial withdrawal of state capital from listed state-owned enterprises (SOEs) does...
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We examine whether foreign-owned and government-owned banks in Central and Eastern Europe reacted differently during a domestic systematic banking crisis and the global financial crisis of 2008. Our panel dataset comprises data on more than 400 banks for the period 1994-2010. Our analysis shows...
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