Market Design

I post market design related news and items about repugnant markets. See my Stanford profile. I have a forthcoming book : Moral Economics The subtitle is "From Prostitution to Organ Sales, What Controversial Transactions Reveal About How Markets Work."

Showing posts with label bankruptcy. Show all posts

Showing posts with label bankruptcy. Show all posts

Sunday, February 2, 2020

Caught between a block and a high place: legal cannabis firms struggling to compete with the still thriving black market

Blocked from using federal bankruptcy protections, cannabis businesses that are legal under state laws but illegal under federal laws are f...

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Where burial societies go to die

The NY Times has a story on burial societies, cooperatives set up by immigrants in the 1800s and early 1900s to buy and maintain cemeteries....

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Debtor's prison in Dubai

The NY Times reports on criminal justice in Dubai: For a Bounced Check in Dubai, the Penalty Can Be Years Behind Bars Here's what I wrot...

Friday, January 23, 2009

TARP auction: Bank of England version

My hotel in Maastricht is housed in an old (renovated) church, and it now has excellent internet connections, so I can blog a bit more than ...

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Bankruptcy

Contracts are shaped in part by the legal framework that determines what happens when contracts break down. The long time scholar of bankrup...

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