It is sometimes alleged that in cases of bankruptcy, there is often not much left for the creditors, especially for the ordinary unsecured creditors. This article examines, in an exploratory way, what the different classes of creditors, depending on their priority position, recover in cases of bankruptcy in Belgium, by investigating a sample of 286 bankruptcy files from the Commercial Court of Ghent (Belgium's second largest city). This article also explores what impact some existing proposals to improve the position of ordinary unsecured creditors in the event of bankruptcy would have had on the bankruptcy cases studied.

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破产：债权人还剩下什么？比利时探索性研究

有时据称，在破产案件中，债权人通常所剩无几，尤其是普通无担保债权人。本文通过调查根特商业法院（比利时第二大城市）的 286 份破产档案样本，以探索性的方式研究了不同类别的债权人根据其优先地位在比利时破产案件中获得的赔偿. 本文还探讨了一些现有的改善普通无担保债权人在破产情况下的地位的建议会对所研究的破产案件产生什么影响。