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GCGC/ECGI Global Webinar Series - Insider Trading Data Reveals Pandemic Is a Time for Questioning, Not Answering

Following news reports about executives selling shares in their corporations to avoid losses due to the pandemic, a new study takes a closer look at insider trades and finds that...

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Contemplating COVID-19 and Competition—Returning to the Rat Race or Aspiring for Something Nobler?

Whatever the market ailment, competition is typically the cure. Except now. Competition among nations or states for ventilators and masks are causing more, rather than fewer, deaths. The Covid-19 pandemic...

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Covid-19 and Insolvency: The Case for ‘Light-touch’ Administration

Different countries have adopted various strategies to prevent or delay initiation of insolvency proceedings and protect businesses in the wake of the Covid-19 Crisis. This has previously been discussed ...

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Kartikeya Sharma

How to Set Collateral Requirements for Central Counterparties?

Reforms after the financial crisis of 2007-09 promote the use of central counterparties to reduce counterparty risk. The central counterparty, also known as the clearinghouse, enters a trade both as...

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Jessie Jiaxu Wang

Agostino Capponi

Hongzhong Zhang

GCGC/ECGI Global Webinar Series - How to Rescue Startups During the Pandemic

The global startup sector looks back on a decade of rising VC investment and favourable economic conditions. Many new technologies and innovative products were recently launched by startups...

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Wolf-Georg Ringe

GCGC/ECGI Global Webinar Series - Bankruptcy’s Role in the COVID-19 Crisis

Current policy discussions tend to minimize the role of bankruptcy law in mitigating the financial fallout from COVID-19. Scholars too are unsure about the merits of bankruptcy, especially Chapter 11,...

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Edward Morrison

Andrea Saavedra

COVID-19 and Beyond: The Case for Creditor Cooperation Duties in Corporate Workouts

The COVID-19 pandemic is causing financial distress to economically viable firms on an unprecedented scale. In this post, we introduce the novel idea of creditor cooperation duties to stabilize corporate...

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Horst Eidenmüller

Kristin van Zwieten

Start-up Funding in Times of Covid 19

As Covid-19 spreads through all continents, its economic significance becomes undeniable. With a predicted global gross domestic product (GDP) plunge, governments rush to provide a quick response to...

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Alexandra Andhov

Raphael Andrade

Transnational Corporate Governance: The State of the Art and Twenty-First Century Challenges

‘Seriously?’, you might think. A paper about the history and future prospects of corporate governance amidst Covid-19? Why would two corporate law scholars think that their reflections on how in...

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Dionysia Katelouzou

GCGC/ECGI Global Webinar Series - Fed to the Rescue: Unprecedented Scope, Stretched Authority

When it comes to responding to the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., the Federal Reserve has emerged as one of the most active institutions at the national level. Its bold...

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