Consumer credit, debt and bankruptcy : comparative and international perspectives / edited by Johanna Niemi, Iain Ramsay and William C. Whitford.
K1096.A6 C667 2009 (Mapit)
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Consumer credit, debt and bankruptcy : comparative and international perspectives / edited by Johanna Niemi, Iain Ramsay and William C. Whitford.
Imprint
Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Publishing, 2009.
Description
viii, 453 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Formatted Contents Note
Inequality and access to financial services /Gregory D Squires
The political economy of consumer credit securitization: comparing predatory lending in home finance in the US, UK, Germany and Japan /Christopher L Peterson
Consumer overindebtedness in Brazil and the need for new consumer bankruptcy legislation /Cláudia Lima-Marques and Antônio Benjamin
'Wannabe WAGS' and 'credit binges' : the constructions of overindebtedness in the UK /Iain Ramsay
Overindebted households and law : prevention and rehabilitation in Europe /Johanna Niemi
'A call to arms'- for regulation of consumer lending /Udo Reifner
The political economy of the EC consumer credit directive /Sefa M Franklin
Disclosure as an imperfect means for addressing overindebtedness : an empirical assessment of comparative approaches /Susan Block-Lied, Richard Wiener, Jason A Cantone and Michael Holtje
Prevention of overindebtedness and mechanisms for resolving overindebtedness of South African consumers /Michelle Kelly-Louw
The myth of the cautious consumer : law, culture, economics and politics in the rise and partial fall of unsecured lending in Japan /Souichirou Kozuka and Luke Nottage
Making sense of nation-level bankruptcy filing rates /Ronald J Mann
Overindebtedness and financial stress : a comparative study in Europe /Catarina Frade and Claudia Abreu Lopes
Bankruptcy in Germany : filing rates and the people behind the numbers /Wolfram Backert, Ditmar Brock, Götz Lechner and Katja Maischatz
Elderly consumer weakness in 'withholding credit' /Johannes Doll
Two decades, three key questions, and evolving answers in European consumer insolvency law : responsibility, discretion, and sacrifice /Jason Kilborn
A law-in-action approach to comparative study of repayment forms of consumer bankruptcy /Jean Braucher
Debt agreements from down under /John Duns and Rosalind Mason
Personal bankruptcy in Korea /Soogeun Oh
New labour : more debt- the political response /Michael Green
Debt counseling in the shadow of the court : the Dutch experience /Nadja Jungmann and Nick Huls.
The political economy of consumer credit securitization: comparing predatory lending in home finance in the US, UK, Germany and Japan /Christopher L Peterson
Consumer overindebtedness in Brazil and the need for new consumer bankruptcy legislation /Cláudia Lima-Marques and Antônio Benjamin
'Wannabe WAGS' and 'credit binges' : the constructions of overindebtedness in the UK /Iain Ramsay
Overindebted households and law : prevention and rehabilitation in Europe /Johanna Niemi
'A call to arms'- for regulation of consumer lending /Udo Reifner
The political economy of the EC consumer credit directive /Sefa M Franklin
Disclosure as an imperfect means for addressing overindebtedness : an empirical assessment of comparative approaches /Susan Block-Lied, Richard Wiener, Jason A Cantone and Michael Holtje
Prevention of overindebtedness and mechanisms for resolving overindebtedness of South African consumers /Michelle Kelly-Louw
The myth of the cautious consumer : law, culture, economics and politics in the rise and partial fall of unsecured lending in Japan /Souichirou Kozuka and Luke Nottage
Making sense of nation-level bankruptcy filing rates /Ronald J Mann
Overindebtedness and financial stress : a comparative study in Europe /Catarina Frade and Claudia Abreu Lopes
Bankruptcy in Germany : filing rates and the people behind the numbers /Wolfram Backert, Ditmar Brock, Götz Lechner and Katja Maischatz
Elderly consumer weakness in 'withholding credit' /Johannes Doll
Two decades, three key questions, and evolving answers in European consumer insolvency law : responsibility, discretion, and sacrifice /Jason Kilborn
A law-in-action approach to comparative study of repayment forms of consumer bankruptcy /Jean Braucher
Debt agreements from down under /John Duns and Rosalind Mason
Personal bankruptcy in Korea /Soogeun Oh
New labour : more debt- the political response /Michael Green
Debt counseling in the shadow of the court : the Dutch experience /Nadja Jungmann and Nick Huls.
Note
Selected papers from the meeting of the Law and Society Association held in Berlin during July 2007.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Location
STA
Call Number
K1096.A6 C667 2009
Language
English
ISBN
9781841132587
1841132586
1841132586
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