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Consumer Law Myopia
The consumer credit market for low-income households in the United States is characterized by high interest rates, harsh default terms,…
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Welcome to Vilnius: Regulatory Competition in the EU Market for E-Money
If you google ‘Lithuania e-money’, the auto-fill function will suggest that you search for ‘Lithuania e-money license’. If you accept…
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Bankruptcy and teams
Corporate bankruptcies constitute an important mechanism for the economy to purge itself of obsolete firms and allocate their constituent parts…
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Back to the Future: Waves of Legal Scholarship on Artificial Intelligence
In the past years, legal scholarship on technology matters has become ubiquitous. Topics such as self-driving cars, predictive policing or…
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A Functional Law and Economics Analysis of the Restructuring Directive
From a functional law and economics perspective, the recent European restructuring directive (the ‘Directive’) brings both welcome innovations and multiple…
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Do UK Companies Make Use of Corporate Mobility Instruments to ‘Escape’ Brexit?
Is there an impact of Brexit on corporate mobility in the form of companies incorporated in the United Kingdom making…
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The New Paradigm
With the adoption this week of The UK Stewardship Code 2020, to accompany The UK Corporate Governance Code 2018, the UK Financial…
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Venture Capital in China and India: Does Business Form Matter?
Venture capital funds are widely recognised as performing a crucial intermediation role in the start-up sector, as they are capable…
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Beyond the Zero Lower Bound: Negative Rates and Bank Lending
Given the secular decline of real interest rates around the world, negative policy rates are likely to become a more…
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Disciplining Outsiders in UK Takeover Transactions–Ruling of the Hearings Committee on Dave King
Perhaps the most attractive aspect of the UK system is the ability of the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers (the…
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Repos and Resolution 2.0
Just a month ago, the Federal Reserve pumped USD 75b into the financial markets on 15 September and the two…
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Reprofiling Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow: A Unilateral Italian Debt Restructuring
Italy has €2.4 trillion of debt. Should it ever find itself in pressing need of restructuring it, traditional avenues for…
