Economics

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 ...