Jaka Cepec
PhD

Jaka Cepec was born in 1981, graduated law with “cum laude” at the University of Ljubljana, School of Law (Slovenia). He gained his Master of Science degree in the field of corporate and contract law at the University of Maribor, School of Law (Slovenia). In 2014 he finished his PhD on the Law and Economics of Insolvency Law at the School of Law, University of Ljubljana.He publishes in the fields of Insolvency law, corporate law and in the field of law and economics. His main work focuses on empirical legal research. He is a author or co-author of four books and numerous articles. He was awarded with the Best young lawyer award of 2014 by the Slovenian association of Lawyers and was granted the Fulbright post doc fellowship in spring 2018, which he spent at Washington and Lee University in Virginia, US.

• Cepec J., Grajzl P.
  Measuring the effectiveness of bankruptcy institutions : filtering failures in Slovenian financial reorganizations.
  Journal of institutional economics

• Cepec J, Grajz P
  Debt-to-equity conversion in bankruptcy reorganization and post-bankruptcy firm survival.
  International Review of law and economics,

• Cepec J., Grajzl P.
  Management turnover, ownership change, and post-bankruptcy failure of small businesses
  Small business economics,

• CEPEC, Jaka, GRAJŽL, Peter, ZAJC, Katarina.
  Do liquidation trustee characteristics matter for firm liquidation outcomes? : evidence from Slovenia.
  Economic systems, ISSN 0939-3625, Dec. 2017, vol.41, iss.4, str. 591-609, doi: 10.1016/j.ecosys.2017.05.002