The European Insolvency Regulation 2000: A Paradigm of International Insolvency Cooperation

Jin Cao: Illiquidity, Insolvency, and Banking Regulation Illiquidity, Insolvency, and Banking Regulation

This paper provides a compact framework for banking regulation analysis in the presence of uncertainty between systemic liquidity and solvency shocks. Extending the work by Cao & Illing (2009a, b), it is shown that systemic liquidity shortage arises endogenously as part of the inferior mixed strategy equilibrium. The paper compares different traditional regulatory policies which intend to fix t...

Deflation Caused by Bank Insolvency

The Japanese economy has suffered from persistent deflation since the mid-1990s, when the banking system fell into serious undercapitalization. In Germany and in China, worries about impending deflation have emerged, along with fear of prospective or hidden bank insolvency. In this paper I present a simple model in which bank insolvency causes deflation. During a period of bank insolvency, bank...

Financing Innovation: The Role of Insolvency Law

Scholars working in the ‘law and finance’ field have investigated empirically the links between various types of law and the incidence of venture capital finance. However, no study to date has systematically investigated the relationship between insolvency law— both personal and corporate—and venture capital finance. This paper argues that a nation’s personal insolvency law may have an importan...

Genetic information, privacy and insolvency.

Consumer Insolvency in the Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a country whose economy has undergone a transformation since 1989. Since joining the EU it has been striving to reduce the differences in its economic standard and the quality of its institutional environment in comparison with developed countries. According to an assessment carried out by the World Bank, the Czech Republic was long classed as a country whose institutional...