The Microeconomics and Macropolitics of Systemic Financial Crisis: Bankruptcy as a Point of Reference

Forthcoming in SOVEREIGN INSOLVENCY: POSSIBLE LEGAL SOLUTIONS (Jasna Garasic and Nadia Bodiroga-Vukobrat, eds)(accepted for publication in Springer Press)

Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2538584

34 Pages Posted: 16 Dec 2014

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Susan Block-Lieb

Fordham University School of Law

Terence C. Halliday

American Bar Foundation; School of Regulation & Global Governance (RegNet); Northwestern University - Department of Sociology

Date Written: December 15, 2014

Abstract

There have been two major systemic financial crises during the past 15 years, one regionally focused (the Latin American and Asian Financial Crises), the other more global in its reach (the current Global Financial Crisis). Both crises resulted in broad proposals emanating from the G-22 or G-20 to revise the global financial architecture and reform financial and commercial laws. That the G-20 shifted its focus from corporations to consumers should come as no surprise given the origins of the current Global Financial Crisis in the US subprime mortgage crisis, which was itself widely viewed as a failure of consumer protection. More surprising, however, has been the G-20’s failure to include insolvency law reform, whether corporate or consumer, in its sights. This chapter explores the possible reasons for and consequences of this failure.

Suggested Citation

Block-Lieb, Susan and Halliday, Terence C., The Microeconomics and Macropolitics of Systemic Financial Crisis: Bankruptcy as a Point of Reference (December 15, 2014). Forthcoming in SOVEREIGN INSOLVENCY: POSSIBLE LEGAL SOLUTIONS (Jasna Garasic and Nadia Bodiroga-Vukobrat, eds)(accepted for publication in Springer Press), Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2538584, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2538584

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