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RESOLVENCY – Rethinking Debt From Its Limits

The ERC-funded research project "RESOLVENCY" explores the question of how we can rethink debt as a more sustainable and integrative social medium by revealing the full potential of insolvency law to regulate and constitute debt markets.

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Project Streams

PS0 Debt in the Anthropocene

A sociological and political economy analysis of relations between debt, social systems and our planet

PS0 Debt in the Anthropocene

PS1 Corporate Insolvency Regimes

A comparative analysis of corporate insolvency law to explore insolvency law's role in the reorientation of the corporation within economy and society

PS1 Corporate Insolvency Regimes

PS2 Consumer Insolvency Regimes

A comparative analysis within the field of consumer insolvency centering on the temporal scale of discharge procedures

PS2 Consumer Insolvency Regimes

PS3 Debt-Nature Swaps

A public law analysis of debt-for-nature swaps against the backdrop of global redistributive traditions

PS3 Debt-Nature Swaps

PS4 State-Contingent Debt Instruments

An elaboration on SCDIs as an alternative to traditional sovereign debt instruments challenging the ex-post-renegotiation paradigm with ex-ante deliberation

PS4 State-Contingent Debt Instruments

PS5 Normative Credit Ontology of Money

An inquiry into the normative credit ontology of money from a social philosophy perspective

PS5 Normative Credit Ontology of Money

PS6 The Politics of Debt Market Governance

A mapping of deep disagreement and polarization in political debt deliberation

PS6 The Politics of Debt Market Governance

1928.1345 - John Bull and the Sinking-Fund

PS7 Just Distribution in Debt Deliberation (Experiment)

Game-theoretical experimentations on fairness in debt deliberation

PS7 Just Distribution in Debt Deliberation

PS8 Social Credit Systems as Alternative Currencies

An exploration of social credit systems as alternative socio-economic debt structures

PS8 Social Credit Systems as Alternative Currencies

PS9 Anthropological Varieties of Debt Governance

An inquiry into anthropological foundations of debt governance

PS9 Anthropological Varieties of Debt Governance

PS10 The Normative Grammar of Debt

Inquiry into theoretical foundations of a normative "grammar" (of debt regimes)

PS10 The Normative Grammar of Debt

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Funded by the European Union (ERC, RESOLVENCY, No. 950427). Views and opinions expressed are, however, those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.