This note analyzes select aspects of the system for insolvency and creditors' rights in the context of an overall assessment of the Irish financial sector. It focuses on two areas: (1) the use and effectiveness of the corporate restructuring regime and (2) the resolution of mortgage related...

A. Einleitung -- Problemstellung und Untersuchungsgegenstand — Themenabgrenzung — Gang der Untersuchung — Begriff des Haftkapitals -- B. Grundlegungen -- Begriffsbestimmung »Mezzanine-Kapital« — Zweck der Verwendung mezzaniner Finanzierungsinstrumente — Bestandsaufnahme der in...

This paper examines the effect of host economy creditor rights and information sharing on the profit performance of foreign banks vis-à-vis domestic banks for a global sample of commercial banks over the 2005-2009 period. To this end, we employ the recent foreign bank ownership dataset of...