Author/Editor: Wouter Bossu, Cory Hillier, Wolfgang Bergthaler.

Release Date:November, 2020

Recent financial crises including the ongoing one caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have consistently drawn attention to the need to strengthen the quality of public debt management in emerging markets more...

Author/Editor: José Garrido, Wolfgang Bergthaler, Chanda M DeLong, Juliet Johnson, Amira Rasekh, Anjum Rosha, Natalia Stetsenko.

Release Date:February, 2019

To date, the use of empirical data in insolvency law analysis has been sporadic. This paper provides a conceptual framework for the use of data to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of more...

Author/Editor: Sebastiaan Pompe, Wolfgang Bergthaler.

Release Date:December, 2015

This paper discusses the recent major reforms in the area of civil and commercial claims enforcement undertaken by the Portuguese authorities in the context of the IMF/EU-supported adjustment more...

Author/Editor: Shekhar Aiyar, Wolfgang Bergthaler, Jose M Garrido, Anna Ilyina, Andreas Jobst, Kenneth H Kang, Dmitriy Kovtun, Yan Liu, Dermot Monaghan, Marina Moretti.

Release Date:September, 2015

Europe’s banking system is weighed down by high levels of non-performing loans (NPLs), which are holding down credit growth and economic activity. This discussion note uses a new survey of European more...

Author/Editor: Wolfgang Bergthaler, Kenneth Kang, Yan Liu, Dermot Monaghan.

Release Date:March, 2015

The global financial crisis has left a large private sector debt overhang and high levels of non- performing loans (NPLs) in several European countries. Small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) more...