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10 Dec 2020
5 min to read

Cybersecurity Breaches and the Financial Sector: Revitalising the Proposal for a CERT-Fin in India

Sohini Banerjee | KS Roshan Menon

In its Financial Stability Report for the year, the Reserve Bank of India cautioned that there ‘is no room for complacency on cyber security’. The central bank’s warning is timely. The Indian...
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19 Nov 2020
1 min to read

Online Event Series: ‘Supporting Distressed Businesses in the COVID-19 Crisis’—The View from Germany

OBLB Editors

This year policymakers around the globe have scrambled to intervene in response to an anticipated wave of business bankruptcies flowing from COVID-19 trading disruption. A range of policies have been...

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  • COVID-19
30 Oct 2020
2 min to read

Behavioral Law and Economics Meets COVID-19

Doron Teichman | Kristen Underhill

In our recent paper, ‘Infected by Bias: Behavioral Science and the Legal Response to COVID-19’, we apply the framework of behavioral economics to better understand efforts to address the COVID-19...

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27 Oct 2020
3 min to read

Contract Law Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Functional and Comparative Approach

Valentin Jentsch

The rapidly spreading coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak, which was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11 March 2020, all of a sudden changed everyday life all over Europe and the...

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26 Oct 2020
5 min to read

A Giant Leap for German Restructuring Law? The New Draft Law for Preventive Restructuring Procedures in Germany

Stephan Madaus

On 19 September 2020 the German Ministry of Justice published the long awaited draft law (the ‘Reform Bill’) transposing the EU Restructuring and Insolvency Directive 2019 (the ‘Directive’). The...

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14 Oct 2020
5 min to read

Material Adverse Change Uncertainty

Narine Lalafaryan

Covering unwelcome uncertainties of the future, yet inherently uncertain and ambiguous by themselves, material adverse change/effect (‘MAC’) clauses have evolved into important risk-allocation...

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08 Oct 2020
5 min to read

Tracking Bankruptcy Filings in the COVID-19 Crisis

Jialan Wang | Jeyul Yang | Benjamin Iverson | Raymond P Kluender

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted normal life and triggered massive economic slowdowns. In the United States, consumer spending has dropped dramatically and unemployment temporarily hit the highest...
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30 Sep 2020
2 min to read

The Government's Economic Response to the COVID Crisis

David Zaring

The COVID crisis has been an economic, as well as a public health, disaster, and the US government has responded to it by trying to loan money to as many institutions as it can, offering corporations...

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29 Sep 2020
4 min to read

Banning Cassandra from the Market? An Empirical Analysis of Short-Selling Bans during the Covid-19 Crisis

Marco Ventoruzzo | Gianfranco Siciliano

With the recent outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an unprecedented shock in worldwide supply and demand caused by the imposition of various lockdown measures to prevent human-to-human...

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17 Sep 2020
4 min to read

Legal Disruption and Times of Crisis: COVID-19 and (Contract) Law

Christian Twigg-Flesner

The term ‘disruption’ has been used frequently, and rather indiscriminately, in recent years, particularly in legal writings on the many facets of digitalisation. In my recent paper, I argue that a...

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15 Sep 2020
5 min to read

COVID-19 in the US: Impossible Contracts and Force Majeure

Andrew A. Schwartz

The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020—as well as government orders to contain it—have prevented countless people, babysitters to basketball players, from fulfilling their contracts. Are all of these parties...

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  • Corporate Governance
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02 Sep 2020
4 min to read

The Pandemic Response in the UK in the Context of Corporate and Financial Law—within and without Law

Iain G MacNeil | Irene-Marie Esser

The Covid-19 pandemic has prompted a wide range of responses from governments, central banks and regulatory agencies around the world as well as driving adaptations to corporate governance practices...

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01 Sep 2020
4 min to read

Making Indian Telemedicine Sustainable

Sohini Banerjee

The onset of Covid-19 has accelerated the adoption of telemedicine by consumers in India. Reports indicate that the popular Indian healthcare application Practo has witnessed a steep 500% increase in...

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31 Aug 2020
4 min to read

Sustainability and Islamic Finance in the United Arab Emirates

Edana Richardson

The government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has, in recent years, made it clear that it wants to promote the UAE as a country in which environmental and social issues are prioritised. It has...

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28 Aug 2020
2 min to read

Call for Papers: The 3rd Conference on Law & Macroeconomics (Online)

Yair Listokin

The economic devastation caused by Covid-19 triggered a slew of new research on law’s role in mediating the business cycle, economic growth, and inequality. We welcome submissions for an online...
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27 Aug 2020
5 min to read

Bail-ins and Bail-outs Are Better than Bankruptcy: A Comparative Assessment of Public Policy Responses to COVID-19 Distress

Kristin van Zwieten, Harris Manchester College | Horst Eidenmüller, St Hugh's College | Oren Sussman

COVID-19 has significantly disrupted the conduct of business around the globe. In jurisdictions that impose one or more ‘lockdowns’, multiple sectors of the real economy must endure prolonged periods...

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  • Financial Regulation
27 Aug 2020
3 min to read

Financial Stability, Resolution of Systemic Banking Crises and COVID-19: Toward an Appropriate Role for Public Support and Bailouts

Douglas W. Arner | Emilios Avgouleas | Evan C Gibson

Covid-19 is primarily a health and human crisis but is increasingly evolving also into an economic crisis. It is not yet a financial crisis; rather, so far the financial sector has been central to...

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03 Aug 2020
9 min to read

The Coronavirus Crisis and ECB Banking Supervision: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead

Andrea Enria

On 28 July 2020, ECB Banking Supervision published its first assessment of the potential vulnerabilities of the euro area banking sector in the wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Also on...

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  • COVID-19
  • Corporate Governance
23 Jul 2020
4 min to read

The Climate Imperative - How to Prevent the Health Pandemic Becoming a Dress Rehearsal for a Deeper Crisis

Scott Atkins | Kai Luck

The COVID-19 pandemic and climate change risks share many of the same characteristics, both in terms of their impact and why they have caught so many off-guard. Addressing climate risk is not a...

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  • COVID-19
  • Financial Regulation
16 Jul 2020
3 min to read

After Libra, the Digital Yuan and COVID-19: Central Bank Digital Currencies and the New World of Money and Payment Systems

Douglas W. Arner | Ross Buckley | Dirk A. Zetzsche | Anton Didenko

Three catalysts are currently causing a fundamental reorientation of domestic and international monetary and payment systems: Facebook’s Libra, China’s central bank digital currency (the Digital...

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  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
  • Financial Regulation
06 Jul 2020
2 min to read

Webinar: Does the Global Pandemic Signal a Paradigm Shift in Law and the Economy?

Iain G MacNeil | Emilios Avgouleas | Irene-Marie Esser

On Friday 12 June, the universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow (the Corporate and Financial Law Research group) jointly hosted a full-day webinar entitled ‘Does the global pandemic signal a paradigm...

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