Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) are an important instrument for the protection of foreign direct investment (FDI). However, compared to international trade law, international investment law has so far received only little research attention from an economic point of view. By applying a law...

Bei der wirtschaftlichen, rechtlichen und politischen Integration der Europäischen Union ist eine der Kernfragen, auf welcher politischen Ebene spezifische Regelungskompetenzen angesiedelt werden sollten. Zwischen EU-Ebene und den Mitgliedstaaten haben sich bereits komplexe Über- und...

We provide a synthesis of the theoretical models that study the use of escape clauses, also known as safeguards, in multilateral and preferential trade agreements. We consider models that explain this type of flexibility based on economic efficiency, political economy shocks, and...

An Optional European Contract Code in the Institutional Competition between European Contract Laws -- Assessment of the Desirability of an Optional European Contract Law -- Evaluation of the European Commission's Impact Assessment Accompanying the Proposal for a Regulation on a CESL.