... of credibility of financial markets and prejudice to the public at large do not escape the imposition of all possible liabilities. Design/methodology/approach The matter here applied consists of the recourse to a number of experiences deriving from European legal systems that have tackled the phenomenon...

..., the legal system which was in operation in the Dutch Republic during the late sixteenth, the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden (Republic of the Seven United Netherlands – Dutch Republic in short), existed between 1581 and 1795, in about...