Economics
A corporate rescue regime should reflect some alignment with economic efficiency?
In order to stir comments on a forthcoming talk that I was giving on the law and economics of insolvency ...
New criteria for corporate restructuring?
I was pleased to have presented some ideas on ‘filtering mechanisms’ for corporate restructuring at the annual insolvency academics network ...
A lawyer and an economist walk into a bar….
In preparing for a presentation before eminent insolvency law academics I thought I would test my thinking by presenting to ...
The economics of insolvency – the pain of liquidation is one way to get economic growth
Pre INSOL post I am pleased to have had my topic accepted for presentation at the INSOL Academics Colloquium in ...
Insolvency numbers – a positive slant
The Australian newspaper has again given a useful account of corporate insolvency numbers, although slightly premature given that personal insolvency ...
The wider context of the proposed one-year period of bankruptcy
Many less than 1% of bankrupts warrant an objection to discharge from their bankruptcy, trustees leave it til the last ...
An economic perspective on trends in start-ups, and -downs
The federal government’s Innovation Statement of 2015 contained some simplistic aims for the promotion of entrepreneurial activity from proposed changes ...
Where’s an economist when you need one?
R3 in the UK has commented on a recent OECD Report, about which we gave some views when it came ...
OECD report – “low personal costs to entrepreneurial failure with high barriers to restructuring”
Economic analyses of insolvency in Australia are strangely limited, given that a major purpose of an insolvency regime is its support of ...