The economics of the EU’s corporate-insolvency law and the quest for harmonisation by market forces

Oren Sussman

OFRC Working Papers Series from Oxford Financial Research Centre

Abstract: In 2002, a new legislation that harmonises insolvency laws within the EU came into effect. I find reasons – both theoretical and empirical – to doubt whether the new law has achieved the goal of decreasing the cost of cross-border insolvency and borrowing. I thus suggest an alternative approach to the problem, which is based – to a larger extent – on market forces rather than on political or bureaucratic initiative.

Date: 2005
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