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Due to the absence of due process and other procedural guarantees generally offered by judicial enforcement, informal debt collection practices (IDCPs) can become abusive, harming both consumers and the economy by threatening consumers' physical, psychological, and economic wellbeing.
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Regulating informal debt collection in the European Union: An introduction
C¿T¿LIN-GABRIEL ST¿NESCU
1 Contemporary European debt collection practices through the prism of the rule of law
TIBOR TAJTI (THAYTHY)
2 Regulation of abusive informal debt collection practices in Croatia
PAULA PORETTI
3 Debt collection services in Germany: A sector in turmoil
DAVID MARKWORTH
4 Abusive informal debt collection practices in Greece
ELENI KAPROU
5 Abusive debt recovery practices in Estonia
KARIN SEIN
6 Doubling down on debt?: Legal responses to private debt as a business model in the Netherlands
CANDIDA LEONE AND JOANNA VAN DUIN
7 Regulation of abusive informal debt collection practices in Poland
JAKUB K¿PI¿SKI
8 Romania's struggle to regulate abusive debt collection practices
C¿T¿LIN-GABRIEL ST¿NESCU AND ALBERT ALBANEZI
9 Regulation of abusive informal debt collection practices in Sweden
HAJO MICHAEL HOLTZ
10 Regulation of abusive informal debt collection practices: The U.K. debt collection industry: why regulation isn't enough
JODI GARDNER AND MIA GRAY
11 Can the Representative Actions Directive combat abusive debt collection practices in the E.U.?
AGNES HORVATH
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About the author
Cătălin-Gabriel Stănescu is Associate Professor in Law at the Faculty of Business and Social Sciences, University of Southern Denmark.
Summary
Due to the absence of due process and other procedural guarantees generally offered by judicial enforcement, informal debt collection practices (IDCPs) can become abusive, harming both consumers and the economy by threatening consumers’ physical, psychological, and economic wellbeing.
