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    Estimating the Need for Additional Bankruptcy Judges in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic

    We recently estimated the US bankruptcy system’s ability to absorb an anticipated surge of financial distress among American consumers, businesses, and municipalities as a result of COVID-19. An increase in the unemployment rate has historically been a leading indicator of the volume of bankruptcy filings that occur months later...

    30 June 2020

    The Differential Health, Economic and Financial Effects of the COVID-19 Crisis and the Impact of the Crisis on Boards of Directors and Regulators

    In April 2020, Monash University hosted the first session of the ECGI/GCGC 24 hour global webinar on The COVID-19 Crisis and Its Aftermath: Corporate Governance Implications and Policy Challenges. The Monash University session, which I chaired, comprised two panel discussions of key corporate governance and financial issues relating to the COVID-19 crisis....

    09 June 2020

    Short Selling and Short Selling Disclosure in a Pandemic

    Even prior to the emergence of COVID-19, global securities regulators were questioning whether short sellers needed to be put on a tighter leash.  On December 4, 2019, Japan’s GPIF, the largest pension fund in the world, announced it would not lend shares to short sellers on its multi-billion portfolio of global equities,...

    Real name:
    Joshua Mitts
    20 May 2020