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Bankruptcy And Mortgage Lending: The Homeowner Dilemma, A. Mechele Dickerson Oct 2004

Bankruptcy And Mortgage Lending: The Homeowner Dilemma, A. Mechele Dickerson

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Why (Consumer) Bankruptcy?, Richard M. Hynes Oct 2004

Why (Consumer) Bankruptcy?, Richard M. Hynes

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A Politically Viable Approach To Sovereign Debt Restructuring, A. Mechele Dickerson May 2004

A Politically Viable Approach To Sovereign Debt Restructuring, A. Mechele Dickerson

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The failure to enact a statutory system to restructure sovereign debt suggests that the international community is still unwilling to adopt a unified global response to insolvency issues. Since nations refused to enact uniform legislation to facilitate more orderly business insolvencies within a sovereign, it is not surprising that recent attempts to create uniform legislation that addresses the insolvency of sovereigns themselves have been unsuccessful. While a comprehensive statutory approach can predictably and efficiently restructure all of a sovereign's debts, the failed experience with uniform cross-border insolvency legislation suggests that sovereigns will not accept an inflexible statutory scheme that contains …


Overoptimism And Overborrowing, Richard M. Hynes Jan 2004

Overoptimism And Overborrowing, Richard M. Hynes

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