2020-05-doc6 Coping collectively with COVID-19

ICR corona 17-3-1

This editorial makes a call to practitioners, scholars and regulators to adopt an agenda for future research, and a call to global financial institutions to fund and further such research. It will appear shortly, in: 17 International Corporate Rescue 2020, Issue 3, published by Chase Cambria Publishing (www.chasecambria.com). The topic we all understand, wherever we are, walking at physical distance from our fellow citizens, no beer with friends on a terrace, no movies, and working at home: to establish predictable frameworks for emergency situations. In this contribution related to restructuring and insolvency matters a call is made for substantial research into a sharp legal respons to extraordinary situations (such as the corona pandemic), for a mirror-type of framework on how to go back in an orderly way to an as far as imaginable ordinary situation (post-corona) and for dealing with fraudsters and crooks, misusing the sheer unlimited liquidity governments have infused in our economies nearly unconditionally.