Default and imprisonment for debt in Sweden: from the lost chances of a ruined life to the lost capital of a bankrupt company / Karl Gratzer -- The risk of bankruptcy among German merchants in eighteenth-century England / Margrit Schulte Beerbühl -- Credit, bankruptcy and power in the Ionian Islands under British rule, 1815-1864 -- Financial instability in transition economies during the 1920s: the European reconstruction and credit-Anstalt insolvency / Michel Fior -- Innovation and corporate failure: Cyril Lord in UK textiles, 1945-1968 -- Down many times, but still playing the game: creative destruction and industry crashes in the early video game industry, 1971-1986 -- A review of the history of air carrier bankruptcy forecasting and the application of various models to the US airline industry, 1980-2005 / Richard D. Gritta, et al. -- A network perspective on bankruptcies, mergers, and acquisitions / Jeanette Fors -- Economic policies and bankruptcy institutions: Brazil in a period of transition from colony to an independent nation / M. Teresa Ribeiro de Oliveira -- The historical evolution of bankruptcy law in England, the US and Italy up to 1939: determinants of institutional change and structural differences / Paolo Di Martino -- Insolvency and privatization: the European transition economies in the 1990s / Dieter Stiefel -- Security interest and insolvency: a comparative analysis between Swedish, Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian law / Annina Persson.