Explaining the choice between alternative insolvency regimes for troubled companies in the UK and Sweden

Over the past 20 years UK and Swedish insolvency law has moved in the direction of company rescue rather than enforcing secured creditor priority. However, both countries show a low take up rate of rescue procedures. This paper uses a cost-benefit approach to examine the choices faced by key stakeholders using the now conventional transaction cost paradigm. The paper argues that it is predominantly the ex post indirect and time costs which explain the poor take up of customised rescue procedures. In both countries the ex ante cost of delay in filing also presents a tough challenge not fully addressed by policymakers

Classification results: each figure is the average of three independent experiments using different training and test datasets.

<p>Classification results: each figure is the average of three independent experiments using different training and test datasets.</p

Distributions of axial ¹⁸F-FDG PET intra slices extracted from the 3D tumor volume of non-responders and responders.

<p>Distributions of axial ¹⁸F-FDG PET intra slices extracted from the 3D tumor volume of non-responders and responders.</p

Kaplan-Meier plot showing the survival rates of responders and non-responders.

<p>Kaplan-Meier plot showing the survival rates of responders and non-responders.</p

Examples of feature maps in the first and last max-pooling layers <b>V</b>⁽¹⁾<b>,</b><b>V</b>⁽⁴⁾ of the CNN architecture.

<p>The feature maps illustrate how a specific triplet is represented in the first and last max-pooling layers.</p

¹⁸F-FDG PET ROIs of a specific tumor <i>i</i> after segmentation embedded into larger square background of standard size of 100 × 100 pixels.

<p>Each enlarged slice is denoted by <b>x</b>_<i>i,j</i> and each set of three spatially adjacent enlarged slides is denoted by <b>z</b>_<i>i,k</i>, where <i>j</i> and <i>k</i> represent the slices and triplets of the specific tumor <i>i</i>. In this example only 3 triplets, from the 5 available slices can be formed, so <i>k</i> = 1,2,3.</p

Additional file 1: Appendix 1. of Metformin and longevity (METAL): a window of opportunity study investigating the biological effects of metformin in localised prostate cancer

Informed Consent Form. (DOC 213 kb

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SOP serum and whole blood preperation. (DOCX 23.8 kb