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THE RIGHT OF PUBLICITY: PRIVACY REIMAGINED FOR A PUBLIC WORLD (Harvard University Press 2018), 256 pages, considers the opportunities and risks that today’s right of publicity laws pose. The right of publicity has become a negative force ― suppressing speech, blocking otherwise lawful uses...
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Micro-businesses are the lifeblood of any functioning economy: they are more numerous and, collectively, have a higher turnover than any other form of business in the majority of countries around the globe. In all parts of the world, developed and undeveloped, however, they are starved of...
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Two recent papers examine the impact of corporate bankruptcy laws on new business start-ups in 29 countries over 1990 … bankruptcy laws over the years studied. It is statistically inappropriate and inaccurate to treat bankruptcy laws as time … invariant, as in Peng et al. (2010) and Lee et al. (2010), particularly in view of the dramatic changes in bankruptcy laws over …
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In this paper we study the political and economic determinants of US states' choices of homestead exemptions. We develop a political economy model in which homestead exemptions are ex-post beneficial to borrowers who default (because they shield some of their wealth from creditors) but ex-ante...
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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 deals with the issues of bankruptcy in the aftermath of 2008 financial crisis …
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restructuring bankruptcy by providing that they are not only entitled to submit a plan on behalf of their debtor, but also empowered … on bankruptcy. The New Creditors’ Bargain Theory suggests a broad understanding of the creditors’ power in determining ….S. legal theory with the E.U. legal rules, the analysis brings a transnational model of bankruptcy law to the forefront …
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This essay revisits earlier work on the relationship between insolvency law and secured credit, the role of secured transactions law reforms, and the benefits of secured credit. These complex relationships require a holistic approach toward reforms of secured transactions law and insolvency law....
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