Consumer credit, debt and bankruptcy comparative and international perspectives / edited by Johanna Niemi, Iain Ramsay and William C. Whitford.

Other author Niemi, Johanna, 1957-
Other author Ramsay, Iain.
Other author Whitford, William C., 1940-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoOxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub.,
Descriptionviii, 453 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Contents 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 ... [et al.]. -- 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 ... [et al.] -- 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.
General noteSelected papers from the meeting of the Law and Society Association held in Berlin during July 2007.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2010286829
ISBN9781841132587 (cloth)
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